North Korean hackers breached Binance through fake job interviews, report says
What happened
According to a November 4 report, North Korean hackers used fake job interviews to get a Binance engineer to download malicious code onto a work computer. Binance's incident report says attackers used the infected machine and internal AI tools on October 20 to reach a wallet engineer's device, then on October 29 used stolen credentials to deploy containers and run a theft script. The report attributes last week's crypto theft to North Korean hackers and puts the stolen amount at $6.3 billion. The disclosure lays out the chain from the recruitment lure to device compromise, credential use and the theft script.
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- Hacker News front pageNorth Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
朝鲜黑客通过虚假招聘面试诱使 Binance 工程师在工作电脑下载恶意代码，最终实施上周的 $6.3B 加密货币盗窃。Binance 的事件报告称，攻击者于 October 20 利用受感染电脑和内部 AI 工具访问钱包工程师设备，随后在 October 29 使用窃取的凭证部署容器并执行盗币脚本。
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