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Fake job interviews used as part of $6.3bn crypto hack

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has said hackers who stole $6.3bn used "fake job interviews" to steal funds. An engineer was contacted through a legitimate job-hunting platform and invited to bogus job interviews with fake company representatives. "Advanced and deceptive" methods were used to build trust, and the job applicant was instructed to download an "assignment" that deployed malicious code. The engineer's compromised computer and a compromised internal AI tool were then leveraged to gain control over two other engineers' laptops and execute the next steps of the attack. The FBI has traced the theft to TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking group with links to the government. 

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UK/Europe
Euro zone countries 'integrating faster with the US than with each other'

European Central Bank (ECB) ​Vice President Boris Vujcic has said countries in the euro zone are integrating faster with the United States than with each other. Referencing ECB research, Vujcic said estimated barriers to cross-border equity investment between the euro zone and the US have fallen by a quarter ​since 2014, more than twice as much as barriers ​within the euro area, and suggested that Europe's fragmented capital markets make the continent less resilient. "In a fragmented Europe, investment becomes the margin of ⁠adjustment ​whenever a shock hits," he said. "That ​is a resilience problem before it is a growth problem."

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