Binance hackers used fake job interview to breach PC before $6.3B attack

jluxenberg 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Wow yikes! On the one hand -- it's obviously a bad idea to use your current employer's laptop for a job interview.

But social engineering takes many forms and anyone could be suseptible.

Do we need to start carrying liability insurance (like doctors do)? There are so many hazards these days working in tech which can cause you to be liable for huge amounts of damage. Using agents seems fraught too; they can easily go "off the rails" and take actions you didn't intend.

	▲	christophilus 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. Pretty wild. I've never done that, and wouldn't, but I know folks who would. If I ever do any interview work on my laptop, it's always sandboxed, but generally, I just nope out of such interviews, anyway. It's usually one of many red flags.

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koeliga 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

This a known method now of social engineering. See this post from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591707

Still crazy tho that one dev's compromised device could withdraw 6 billion...