Article 79GRT Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist

Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist

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Richard Lawler
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The largest crypto theft to date was pulled off by combining some well-known hacking techniques over the course of a few months, according to Binance. A postmortem from the company says the process started in June with one developer downloading a tampered installer apparently spread by a malicious Google ad, exposing details about the engineers and how they work. Then, in September, another engineer was targeted by someone pretending to be interested in hiring them; that person set up a series of calls and multiple rounds of interviews, shared social media pages to build trust, and eventually prompted them to download a fake interview assign ...

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