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Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Began With a Fake Job Interview: What the Post-Mortem Says, and How to Spot a Fake Recruiter

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Binance’s initial findings trace the $6.34 billion theft of 29 October to a fake job interview in September: a fake HR call, a fake CEO, and a coding “assignment” that installed new malware on an engineer’s work computer. An internal AI tool then served as a springboard to two wallet engineers and a deployment token. What the report says, what it leaves out, who the FBI blames, and how companies and job seekers can protect themselves.
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Set to 110 °C: The Night Hackers Reached a Blood Bank’s Plasma Freezers — and Why the Alarm Won

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During the night of 1 to 2 November 2026, someone reached a refrigeration contractor’s remote supervision system and raised the settings of plasma cold rooms at three sites of France’s blood service EFS, reportedly to 110 °C. It was a setpoint, not a temperature. An alarm and an on-call technician caught it, and no blood products were lost. What is confirmed, what the viral posts get wrong, the unverified claim of responsibility, a clearly labelled hybrid-threat scenario, and what businesses and consumers should do.
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We Gave 42 AI Setups the Same 15 Legal Questions. The Model Built for Law Scored 8 Out of 100

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On Lexassay, my legal AI test, 42 AI setups answered the same 15 questions on German, US and EU law without internet. Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 FlashX Legal, built for law, scored 8 of 100; Europe’s Mistral Large 4 scored 10; Claude Opus 5.5 led with 79. Another test ranks them almost the other way round. What a wrong legal answer can cost, and how to protect yourself. Disclosure: Thorsten Meyer AI runs Lexassay; Claude agents grade. Not legal advice.
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