Hackers behind the record-breaking Binance heist spent weeks masquerading as recruiters and fake executives, eventually convincing an engineer to download malicious software onto a work computer as pa...

A Binance engineer was reportedly tricked into installing malware on a work laptop, enabling suspected North Korean hackers to loot $6.3 billion from the exchange.

The attack was meticulously planned, and began in September when an engineer was approached through a recruitment platform and tricked into downloading a malicious coding assignment.