$BTC The details of the investigation into Binance’s $6 billion theft are honestly more unbelievable than a spy movie…
To infiltrate the company, the hackers specifically searched job sites for Binance engineers who had posted their résumés. They arranged for fake HR staff and a fake CEO to conduct live video interviews with the engineers. When it came to the technical test, they sent an engineer a coding challenge.
The engineer then ran the code directly on their work computer. It secretly replaced the development tool pyenv with a Trojan, which even the antivirus software failed to detect, giving the hackers internal access…
All I can say is, even the most advanced security firewall can’t protect against an employee’s urge to change jobs and take on side gigs.
To infiltrate the company, the hackers specifically searched job sites for Binance engineers who had posted their résumés. They arranged for fake HR staff and a fake CEO to conduct live video interviews with the engineers. When it came to the technical test, they sent an engineer a coding challenge.
The engineer then ran the code directly on their work computer. It secretly replaced the development tool pyenv with a Trojan, which even the antivirus software failed to detect, giving the hackers internal access…
All I can say is, even the most advanced security firewall can’t protect against an employee’s urge to change jobs and take on side gigs.
