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[…] The post Binance’s $6.3bn heist: how one laptop opened the door to the biggest crypto theft in history appeared first on IT Security Guru.","Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has confirmed a massive security breach resulting in the theft of approximately $6.3 billion in digital assets. 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This incident demonstrates how inadequate device-level security controls can create a single point of failure that cascades into a systemic breach of an entire organization. When privileged access is tied to individual endpoints without compensating controls such as multi-factor authentication, least-privilege enforcement, or behavioral monitoring, one stolen credential or infected machine can unlock billions of dollars in assets. The scale of the loss also raises serious questions about whether adequate monitoring and anomaly detection was in place to identify unusual transaction volumes before the theft reached this magnitude. 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