How a fake job interview cost Binance $6.3 billion

A fake job interview cost Binance $6.3 billion. It’s the biggest crypto heist on record. In June, a Binance engineer downloaded a fake copy of a common coding tool from an online ad. Security caught it. But the hackers had already seen who he worked with. In September, a fake recruiter messaged a second engineer. In the last round, they sent him a coding test, and he opened it on his work laptop. The malware inside got past Binance’s security. Binance says the hackers then used its own internal AI tool to take over two more engineers’ computers. From one of them, they got Binance’s own system to approve withdrawals to their wallets. On October 29, $2.5 billion left in a single transfer. It took nearly four hours to stop them. The FBI says North Korea’s TraderTraitor unit did it. North