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

Context: Binance's postmortem says the attack began in June when a developer downloaded a tampered installer, and combined fake job interviews with an internal AI tool.

From The Verge: The largest crypto theft to date was pulled off by combining some well-known hacking techniques over the course of a few months, according to Binance. A postmortem from the company says the process started in June with one developer downloading a tampered installer apparently spread by a malicious…

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The Verge (theverge.com)
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Tuesday, November 3, 2026, ranked 36
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Crypto, Security, AI
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Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist · Keeping Up with Silicon Valley