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Binance lost more than $6 billion in a hack partly caused by fake job interviews. Here's what job seekers can learn from it, and tips to avoid job search scams.
US President Donald Trump could be credited with popularising the term "fake news", but his own presidency has been riddled with numerous false claims, conspiracy theories and misleading content. In this special fact-checking segment, Vedika Bahl examines his Trump's second term: his consistent attacks on political opponents, use of AI-generated images to glorify himself and push political narratives, and what happens when journalists challenge him.
An engineer was contacted through a legitimate job-hunting platform and invited to bogus job interviews with fake company representatives, Binance says.
Many Ukrainians, who have faced years of Russian attacks, did not take the messages seriously and doubted their veracity.
Authorities in Ukraine and Russia said their emergency alert mobile apps had been targeted by cyberattacks, with users in Ukraine receiving false warnings of an imminent nuclear threat. Moscow said that hackers had sent fake emergency alerts after gaining access to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry’s mobile app, and that efforts were ongoing to restore the app's functionality.
Russia and Ukraine both report cyberattacks on their alerting systems, as strikes continue across the countries.
