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Dodgy download and spoofed job ad led to $6.3 billion Binance hack: attacker offered fake software and fake job to infiltrate company wallets and steal billions

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A chain of events that led to a record-breaking $6.3 billion mega-hack began with a dodgy download, so says the company that was hacked , Binance. The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange says that the hack was not a "single isolated breach or simple phishing incident"; multiple steps were required to break through its security measures. It all began when a Wallet DevOps engineer (named Engineer A) downloaded a tampered Homebrew installation that was suggested to them by an unnamed search engine. Homebrew is a third-party package manager for macOS.

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