Binance details fake interview and tampered download before theft it values at $6.34 billion

Binance’s account of the Oct. 29 crypto theft describes a months-long sequence involving a tampered software download, a fake job interview and access to an internal AI tool. The exchange valued the affected assets at about $6.34 billion, Cyber Security News reported. The attack sequence, detailed on Nov. 3, is Binance’s account as reported by Reuters.

In June, a wallet-team employee downloaded a tampered AI coding tool. Binance detected it, replaced the employee’s computer and changed credentials, but the attacker learned the roles of employees on the wallet team, . The job interview came later and involved a different engineer. that the engineer was contacted on a legitimate job-hunting platform in September, attended a video interview with a purported recruiter and was later instructed to download an “assignment” containing a malicious code repository onto a work computer.