North Korean fake job interviews stole $14.3M before the Binance heist

Chainalysis has linked more than $14.3 million in cryptocurrency losses over the past 18 months to North Korean operatives who used fake job interviews and malware to compromise wallets. The blockchain analytics firm said dozens of such interview schemes targeted individual holders, protocols and DAOs, with losses ranging from tens of thousands to millions of dollars, and described them as practice for a later $6.3 billion Binance theft. Binance traced its breach to a September interview invitation to an engineer, who downloaded a malicious assignment after two rounds with a fake company. Chainalysis said the technique, called contagious interviews, aims at staff with privileged access.