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Posted by smalltech 4 days ago

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist(www.theregister.com)
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odyssey7 4 days ago||
Where do these people find jobs so secure that they wouldn’t bat an eye at interviewing for another job in a context where their current employer can watch them do so?

Even if you don’t understand the security concerns of running some 3rd party’s scripts on a work device, more pedestrian situational awareness should have prevented such a wild misjudgment?

leofree 3 days ago||
So it ended up being the human flaw, once more.
Jianghong94 4 days ago||
Am I the only one baffled by the fact that the engineer uses a work PC for a personal job interview assignment?
voakbasda 4 days ago||
Probably. I have seen many colleagues across the cubicle aisles spending their time on things completely unrelated to their work. I would be baffled to hear that you have not had similar experiences.
Jianghong94 4 days ago||
Well I've done the same too. But I would not use my work PC.
sidewndr46 4 days ago|||
Absolutely. Yet as a hiring manager, I see it all the time.
bell-cot 4 days ago||
As a hiring manager, do you hold that behavior against candidates for positions where poor security practices could become a major liability for your company?
ludicrousdispla 4 days ago|||
I don't even use my home PC for interviews, but instead use a refurbed laptop with a clean OS install.
asadotzler 3 days ago||
Blame the lowest guy on the totem pole and not his garbage leadership with a terrible approach to securing the company's vaults. Wow. This industry eats its own or throws them under the bus -- anything but criticize its terrible leaders. What a shitshow.
flerchin 4 days ago||
If she hadn't done it on her work laptop, her personal would have been pwned anyway. It's not clear to me how to protect oneself while also looking for work.
odyssey7 4 days ago|
…what? That’s not how this works. You don’t get to misuse company resources for the purpose of transferring the risks associated with your personal activities from yourself to your employer.
flerchin 4 days ago||
Of course not. I'm asking how to protect oneself during personal activities.
worksonmine 4 days ago||
A lot of detail on what Engineer A, B and C did. But this would've been prevented if Engineer A didn't have "a container deployment permission token on his computer".

What the fuck? On a target as big as Binance? Every developer should be treated as a liability and never be able to deploy by themselves.

lexarflash8g 3 days ago|
This was a big time process failure -- almost every company I worked for you have to authenticate with SSO and MFA and never have static credentials for important services like Github, Google cloud, etc. They don't seem to have least-privilege in place and if they did are not consistent about applying the policy to everyone.

I wouldn't be surprised if the guys they compromised were high-level staff engineers with the keys to the kingdom so to speak so they found a loophole. Security is hard because the attack only needs one chance to get it right -- and defense needs to get it right every single time.

lern_too_spel 4 days ago||
Anybody who thinks this can be prevented from happening again is deluding themselves. I'm looking forward to the MSTR heist writeup when it happens.
bethekidyouwant 4 days ago||
This is insane. The first engineer ran some curl bash, which gave the hackers access to his Slack, and then they set up an interview for him at a fake company and during that interview, they convinced an engineer to download and install some code they had written? This is just clown world.
FLeXMurphy 4 days ago||
I love these guys!
TeriyakiBomb 4 days ago|
insert “Oh no! Anyway…” Jeremy Clarkson meme
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