Ari Redbord
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So what they've now done over the last five or six years is stolen, essentially averaging about a billion dollars a year.
So we're talking six, seven billion dollars to use for weapons proliferation and destabilizing activity.
So when you talk about the targeting, it's moved from sort of targeting the technology to really social engineering at scale.
And that's what you saw in the Drift case, where they're meeting developers at conferences, right?
Using a
Using other people that they sort of bring in to play that role.
They're getting access to private keys to those who have the ability to validate transactions on these exchanges.
So what we've really moved from is sort of just going after the technology to going after the people.
And it's really social engineering at scale.
Right after this, I was at Paris Blockchain Week, standing around, chatting with people.
You get paranoid.
But that's apparently really what was happening here.
They sent proxies to these conferences to meet individuals who were building these protocols.
I think the other sort of scary piece to this is if this happened to Drift...
This obviously was happening to many, many more teams of developers out there who were building in DeFi.
And I'm very concerned that this is sort of the tip of the iceberg and we really need to take action.
Essentially, it had to be right.
I mean, this was something, to be honest, when I read, and I think it was a report that Drift themselves put out that described actually their investigation.
And that was the chilling part for me, too.
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