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How North Korea's 6-month long secret espionage program has crypto community rethinking security

Apr 07, 2026 12:30 UTC

How North Korea's 6-month long secret espionage program has crypto community rethinking security.

  • When Driftdisclosed the detailsbehind its $270 million exploit, the most unsettling part wasn’t the scale of the loss — it was how it happened
  • According to the team behind the protocol, the attack wasn’t a smart contract bug or a clever piece of code manipulation
  • Itwas a six-month campaign involving fake identities, in-person meetings across multiple countries and carefully cultivated trust

When Driftdisclosed the detailsbehind its $270 million exploit, the most unsettling part wasn’t the scale of the loss — it was how it happened. According to the team behind the protocol, the attack wasn’t a smart contract bug or a clever piece of code manipulation. Itwas a six-month campaign involving fake identities, in-person meetings across multiple countries and carefully cultivated trust. The attackers, allegedly from North Korea, didn’t just find a vulnerability in the system. They became part of it. This new threat is now forcing a broader reckoning across decentralized finance. For yea

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