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North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

'It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,' exchange says North Korean cryptocurrency thieves tricked a Binance software engineer into downloading malware onto their work-issued computer during a fake job…

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'It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,' exchange says North Korean cryptocurrency thieves tricked a Binance software engineer into downloading malware onto their work-issued computer during a fake job interview process before last week's record-breaking $6.3 billion heist .

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