The Vergeby Richard Lawler
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Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist

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

Binance revealed in a postmortem that the largest crypto theft to date was executed using fake job interviews and an internal AI tool, starting in June when a developer downloaded a tampered installer.

Key points

  • •According to Binance's postmortem, the incident began in June when a developer downloaded a tampered installer spread by a malicious Google ad.
  • •The process involved a leak of details about the engineers and continued over a few months.
  • •The heist was pulled off by combining fake job interviews and an internal AI tool, resulting in the largest crypto theft to date.
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