Fake Job Interview Led to $6.34 Billion Hack, Binance Says

The headline number is less instructive than the attack path: a fake interview as the entry point and an internal AI tool as the bridge to wallet engineers. That combination points to a maturing threat model in which human targeting and internal automation reinforce each other, and it puts exchange hiring and tooling pipelines, not just smart contracts, on the risk map. The onchain permissions detail matters most for containment — persistent approvals are hard to revoke quickly, so the open question is whether such permission hygiene becomes a standard part of incident response.