Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist
The Verge1 min read96 words
Binance attributes the largest cryptocurrency theft to date, valued at $6.3 billion, to a multi-month campaign that combined established hacking techniques with an internal AI tool. According to the company’s postmortem, the operation began in June when a developer downloaded a tampered installer distributed via a malicious Google ad. This action exposed details regarding the engineers and their operational methods.
In September, the attackers targeted another engineer by impersonating a potential employer. The individual conducted multiple interview calls and shared social media pages to establish trust, ultimately tricking the employee into downloading a fake interview assignment.
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