Ari Redbord
speaker
886 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 11 May
Ari Redbord’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.
Appearances
I've kind of rejected this idea that these are North Korea state sponsored, right?
I would never use that term in our writing or the way we talked about these things.
These are state actors, hard stop.
When I talk about the enemies of the United States and our allies, I think about China and Russia and Iran.
And I put North Korea in there as well, which is crazy, right?
This is a country with absolutely no economy whatsoever.
And yet they're competing on the global stage because they've professionalized cyber crime, essentially.
There is absolutely no economy.
So it's always been, how do we steal and then ultimately launder funds?
And crypto is just the latest iteration of that.
Really, really looking for the conversation and honored to be on the show.
Yeah, it's really extraordinary.
And I think it is a watershed here.
Although I think it's important to go back a little bit.
I mean, North Korea has essentially professionalized crypto hacking and cybercrime.
You know, when I was a prosecutor for years with DOJ, we'd look at North Korea cases involving counterfeit $100 bills and counterfeit cigarettes.
They hacked Sony Pictures and tried to steal a billion dollars from the Bank of Bangladesh.
So this is this is something that has been going on for a really long time.
I think what North Korea has realized, say, over the last five, six, seven years is that, you know, they could hack Sony or some type of business and steal PII, essentially usernames and passwords.
But in the age of crypto, this is bank robbery at the speed of the Internet.
Showing 1–20 of 886 · page 1 of 45
Next →