I have a saved search on Seek and it surprises me that blockchain jobs still show up. Who is still funding this stuff, who is using it to make funding it worthwhile‽
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I have a saved search on Seek and it surprises me that blockchain jobs still show up. Who is still funding this stuff, who is using it to make funding it worthwhile‽
@wezm Isn't that how the North Koreans robbed Binance a week or two back? Dangled job ads targeting developers at Crypto exchanges, then send them a "coding test" to download and run which steals their credentials and access keys?
"Binance initially said that it believed the attack was carried out via a software engineer's compromised laptop, through which the hackers made unauthorized withdrawals. Other issues were soon identified. According to the exchange, the hackers spent months planning the heist which involved fake job interviews, malicious software, and leveraging the platform's artificial intelligence tool. The initial report documented two interviews along with video calls and malicious code that led to accessing engineers computers, including one device that was capable of deploying software"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Binance_hack
2026 Binance hack