Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an AI tool in $6.3 billion crypto heist

Binance reports that the largest crypto theft on record was carried out by chaining together familiar hacking methods over several months. According to the company's postmortem, the attack began in June when a developer downloaded a tampered installer, which appears to have been spread through a malicious Google ad. Details about the engineers and their workflows were exposed in the process. In September, a different engineer was approached by someone posing as a recruiter, who conducted multiple calls and interview rounds and shared social media pages to build credibility. The engineer was ultimately persuaded to download a fake interview assignment, which served as the vehicle for the intrusion.