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 disconnected by combining immoderate well-known hacking techniques implicit the people of a fewer months, according to Binance. A postmortem from the institution says the process that started with 1 developer downloading a tampered installer successful June seemingly dispersed by a malicious Google ad, exposing details astir the engineers and however they work. Then, successful September, different technologist was targeted by idiosyncratic pretending to beryllium funny successful hiring them; that idiosyncratic acceptable up a bid of calls and aggregate rounds of interviews, shared societal media pages to physique trust, and yet prompted them to download a fake interrogation a …

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