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That dream job offer might be from a North Korean hacker

Axios·November 3, 2026·1 min read
That dream job offer might be from a North Korean hacker

North Korea used a fake job interview to prepare for stealing $6.3 billion from Binance, the crypto exchange said Tuesday. A software engineer was contacted via a legitimate job platform by someone posing as a project director. The hackers built trust, then asked the engineer to download an infected code repository. Another engineer downloaded a tampered Homebrew installation, but Binance's security team detected it and rotated credentials.

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