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Binance CSO unwittingly foreshadowed $6.3B hack tactic months before attack

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Key points

  • Binance Chief Security Officer Jimmy Su previously outlined a specific cyberattack method months before the cryptocurrency exchange suffered a record-breaking $6.3 billion hack.
  • In a July interview, Su warned how malicious actors use fake coding assessments to compromise internal employee devices, describing the exact social engineering vector that attackers later deployed to breach the company.

Summarized automatically by Kryptokite from reporting by Cointelegraph. Read the original sources for full detail.

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  • CointelegraphBinance CSO unwittingly foreshadowed $6.3B hack tactic months before attack · 2 hours agoRead on Cointelegraph

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