ATTARD, Malta – In the courtyard of a secluded limestone palace, Malta’s political elite welcomed a guest: Changpeng Zhao, chief executive of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. It ...
In September 2020, a North Korean hacking group known as Lazarus broke into a small Slovakian crypto exchange and stole virtual currency worth some $5.4 million. It was one of a string of cyber heists ...
Update (Sept. 2, 9:40 am UTC): This article has been updated to add a comment from Binance. Binance, the world’s largest centralized crypto exchange (CEX) by market capitalization, is expanding its ...