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Binance's $6.34 Billion Lesson: A Job Interview Can Open More Than a Calendar
· New York time
Binance says attackers used fake job interviews and compromised tools in a campaign that culminated in the loss of $6.34 billion in digital assets on October 29. Its account links to FBI findings that North Korea was responsible for the theft. Binance describes an operation that unfolded over months, not a single bad afternoon. According to the exchange, the process began in June when a Wallet DevOps engineer downloaded a tampered Homebrew installation while seeking a popular AI coding tool through a search engine. Binance says it detected that anomaly and took action, but the episode exposed information about the engineer's colleagues. The company's account also describes fake job interviews as part of the attackers' approach. The case puts an expensive price on a familiar workplace problem: a request can look like ordinary career business while serving someone else's agenda. A search result, a software installation and an interview are all routine enough that none needs to arrive wearing a sign marked trouble. Security teams are left protecting not just the vault but the ordinary paths people use to get to work. The exchange's postmortem is also a reminder that detecting one suspicious event does not automatically reveal every consequence. The attackers had months to exploit access and information, according to Binance. In this hiring process, the most important qualification was apparently knowing how to make a stranger seem professionally relevant.
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