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Fake job interviews led to Binance engineer hack

Original: Binance says fake job interviews tricked an engineer into running a malicious coding assignment on a work laptop. Attack

Binance says attackers posed as recruiters and conducted fake job interviews to trick one of its engineers into running a malicious coding assignment on a work laptop. According to the company, the intruders then used an internal AI tool to expand their access, in an incident tied to an attempted theft valued at $6.34 billion.

Why now: The scale of the attempted theft and the unusual social-engineering tactic via fake interviews are drawing widespread attention.

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