Yesterday, North Korean hackers carried out the largest theft in history, stealing roughly $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange.

• The funds were held in 10 blockchains and left Binance’s digital wallets in about 20 minutes.
• Blockchain analysis firms trm Labs and Chainalysis attribute the attack with high confidence to TraderTraitor, an elite North Korean hacking unit linked to the broader Lazarus Group.
• The same group is believed to have stolen $1.5 billion from the Bybit exchange in February 2025.

China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are the biggest state-sponsored hacking threats to the United States, according to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s 2026 Annual Threat Assessment. China in particular has spent years infiltrating U.S. critical infrastructure networks to allow it to threaten disruption or actually disrupt them during a future conflict.

Gerald Flurry reported on the threat of cyberwarfare in 1995 when the public was only dimly aware of how vulnerable a computer-run society could be. He emphasized a statement by intelligence analyst Joseph De Courcy: “Computer dependence is the Western world’s Achilles’ heel.”

• An end-time Bible prophecy in Ezekiel 7:14 says, “They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.” This verse says that the alarm of war will sound in the nations descended from ancient Israel (primarily America and Britain), but the military will fail to mobilize.

The recent hack on Binance highlights the vulnerability of America’s financial system and its society as a whole to digital disruption.