Tech Brew Ride Home · Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Binance executives revealed that North Korean hackers stole $6.3 billion through a months-long campaign involving fake LinkedIn job interviews and a tampered version of Homebrew distributed via internet ads. The exploits allowed hackers to compromise engineers' machines, take over Binance wallets, and drain funds.
“Speaking to reporters, company executives revealed that the hackers targeted a Binance engineer on LinkedIn and arranged a series of fake job interviews in order to persuade the employee to download an assignment that let them invade the company's systems.”