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 that started with one developer downloading a tampered installer in June 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, who set up a series of calls and multiple rounds of interviews, sharing social media pages to build trust, and eventually prompting them to download a fake interview assignm … Read the full story at The Verge.
Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist
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The VergeBy Richard Lawler
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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 that started with one developer downloading a tampered installer in June 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, who set up a series of c
Key Takeaways
- Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist.
- 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.
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