North Korean hackers are accused of stealing $6.3 billion from Binance after months of fake interviews, malware, and employee deception.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, lost about $6.3 billion to what the FBI believes was a North Korean state-sponsored ransomware gang. Contrary to what you might think, however, hackers didn’t infiltrate the organization with some futuristic tools.
Instead, according to details shared by Binance, one of its software engineers fell for a ruse involving a fake job interview, downloading what they thought was a coding assignment for the pretend role, only for it to contain malware.
