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July 22, 2023·Cryptocurrency

Fake recruiter's coding test cost payment processor CoinsPaid $37M

CoinsPaid · Estonia

Crypto payment processor CoinsPaid lost more than $37 million on July 22, 2023. The company said attackers had spent months trying to break in directly from March 2023 before switching to social engineering: posing as recruiters, they offered an employee a job with an unusually high salary and asked them to complete a technical assessment. The assessment installed malware. CoinsPaid attributed the attack to the Lazarus Group.

Fake Job Offer / Recruitment Lure
$37.0M funds lostReported2 sources

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