Binance says hackers used fake job interviews, AI tool to steal $6.3B
pseudolus
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November 03, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
ChrisArchitect
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50353353
dboreham
Interesting that the article says "DevOps engineer downloaded a tampered Homebrew installation". Are we aware of supply chain attacks against Homebrew? (I guess the internet says the engineer was tricked into downloading a modified version of Homebrew, the official download was not compromised).
eviks
> downloaded a tampered Homebrew installation “to install a popular AI coding tool after searching for it on a search engine,” Decades of operating system development and you still don't have a simple way to install apps...