North Korea used LinkedIn, fake job interviews to trick Binance engineer in $6.3 billion hack

Binance on Tuesday disclosed that North Korean hackers used a mix of social engineering and malicious software to pull off last week’s $6.3 billion heist , the biggest in crypto history. Speaking to reporters, company executives revealed that the hackers targeted a Binance engineer on LinkedIn and arranged a series of fake job interviews in order to persuade the employee to download an “assignment” that let them invade the company’s systems. In a related report, Binance explained that: “Software Engineer B was contacted through a legitimate job-hunting platform by an individual posing as a Project Director.