A job interview, a programming assignment, and a company that didn't exist.
That's all it took to pave the way for one of the biggest thefts in cryptocurrency history.
Binance revealed on November 3 that the approximately $6.3 billion attack, which occurred on October 29, had been months in the making.
In September, an engineer was contacted through a legitimate employment platform.
After interviews with people posing as company executives, he downloaded a programming assignment that contained malicious software.
The hackers then exploited an internal artificial intelligence tool to access colleagues' systems.
The FBI attributed the attack to a group linked to North Korea, while Pyongyang denies involvement.
The stock exchange that held billions of dollars in digital assets was penetrated through one of the most common labor market rituals: the interview for a better job./ Reuters