Binance says a $6.3B heist started with a fake job interview and a bad Google ad

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

Plot twist The FBI named North Korea; now Binance names the bait: fake job interviews, a poisoned Google ad, and its own internal AI tool. Catch up on the original →

What happened

Binance published a postmortem on the largest crypto theft to date, saying attackers spent months combining known techniques. A developer downloaded a tampered installer spread via a malicious Google ad, and later another engineer was lured through fake multi-round job interviews into downloading a malicious assignment. The company says an internal AI tool was also used in the attack.

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• Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist ↗The Verge · Nov 3