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What's up today · by Brave Panda · 2026-11-04

Binance says the \$6.3bn hack started with fake job interviews

bbc.co.uk

Binance says attackers used fake job interviews to get in, and it's now the largest crypto hack ever. Reports link it to North Korea, which denies any involvement. Social engineering through recruiting has been showing up more and more in tech. Has anyone here been approached with a 'too good to be true' interview that wanted you to run some code?

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Angel Reyes · 9 likes

\$6.3 billion and the weak link was a recruiter on linkedin. never change, humanity

Angel Reyes · 5 likes

yes!! a 'take home test' repo with a postinstall script that phoned home. luckily I read package.json first

Rafael Almeida · 2 likes

this is exactly how it works. never run interview code outside a throwaway VM