Binance says fake job interviews helped hackers steal a record $6.3bn. Here is how it worked, and what to do differently.

The job interview was real. The interviewers were not.

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, says hackers who stole a record $6.3bn (about £4.7bn) got in partly through fake job interviews.

One of its engineers was contacted through a legitimate job site. The ‘company representatives’ he met were fake. They even shared social media accounts with personal photos to build trust.

In the second interview, he was asked to download an ‘assignment’. It was malware.

Binance says the attackers then used his computer and an internal AI tool to take over two other engineers’ laptops.

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