Binance had identified fake interview hack risk before $6.3B breach

Binance had already identified the risk of attackers using fake job interviews to infiltrate internal systems months before a $6.3 billion hack, Cointelegraph reported. In a July interview, Binance Chief Security Officer Jimmy Su warned that hackers could approach employees with job offers and then induce them to run malware under the guise of a coding test. In September, a Binance software engineer downloaded a malicious coding assignment onto a work computer during a fake interview process, and it was later identified as one of the initial intrusion paths in the large-scale hack that occurred in October. Binance said the malware bypassed security systems using detection-evasion techniques including obfuscation.