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A Binance engineer thought he was interviewing for a job. Then the hackers pounced
Hackers, widely believed to be from North Korea, duped a Binance engineer into downloading malicious software that allowed them to pull off a $6.3 billion cyber heist of the crypto exchange.
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Hackers, widely believed to be from North Korea, duped a Binance engineer into downloading malicious software that allowed them to pull off a $6.3 billion cyber heist of the crypto exchange. Europe hide caption The massive $6.3 billion cyber heist suffered by crypto exchange Binance last week may have taken place in only about twenty minutes — but the attacks were months in the making.
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