Hackers pulled off a $620 million crypto heist by tricking an engineer into applying for a fake job and opening an offer letter containing spyware, report says
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Hackers posed as job recruiters on Linkedin and tricked a senior engineer into going through "multiple rounds of interviews" for a position that did not exist, sources said. They then sent the engineer a fabricated offer letter laced with spyware. Once downloaded, the hackers could access the game's blockchain network known as "Ronin," where users transferred digital currencies in and out of the game. The US Treasury sanctioned the virtual currency mixer Blender.io, which the department alleged was used to obscure the source of over $20.5 million of the cryptocurrency stolen from Axie Infinity in May. Experts said the cyberattack shouldn't be a deterrent to widespread crypto adoption, as the heist was largely due to human error and a lack of cybersecurity rather than a flaw in the technology itself. Source