The fake interview trap: What Axios and Binance reveal about modern cyberattacks
By Govind Rammurthy, CEO & MD, eScan
The two biggest cyberattacks of 2026 are following a pattern, and it begins not with a breach of a firewall or a zero-day exploit, but with something much more ordinary. A message on a job platform. An invitation to interview. A link to join a meeting.
In April 2026, the Axios supply-chain attack that threatened millions of developer environments worldwide began when a threat actor, later identified as North Korea’s UNC1069 group, spent weeks building a fabricated company and a trusted relationship with a single open-source maintainer, before steering him toward a fake Microsoft Teams meeting that compromised his machine.
The $6.3 billion breach of Binance in October 2026, the largest crypto theft ever, began when a Binance engineer took a seemingly legitimate job interview, eventually was asked to download a “assignment” repository and unknowingly ran malware that allowed attackers to broaden their...
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