Shocking Details On the Binance Hack: Fake Job Interviews and Months of Access

A fake job interview helped hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance. The attackers spent months infiltrating the exchange, using tactics that other cryptocurrency companies had warned about long before the breach. On November 3, Binance revealed that the October 29 attack began with two engineers whose computers were compromised separately. The first incident happened in June, when an engineer downloaded a tampered software package while searching for an AI tool. Binance detected the infection, replaced the computer and changed credentials. However, the attackers had already gathered information about the employee and the wallet team. Then came the fake interviews. Job Scam Cost Binance Over $6 Billion In September, another engineer was approached through a legitimate recruitment platform.

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