According to Binance, the “zero-day malware” used obfuscation and evasion techniques to ensure it was not detected by the engineer’s endpoint security tools. These included replacing a legitimate development tool component with a malicious version to execute commands and connect with a C2 server.

Binance said Tuesday that a $6.3 billion hack of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange was the result of a "multi-stage campaign," including a malicious software download and a fake job intervie...