Ari Redbord
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 11 May
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Right.
Because there's this whole idea that like you basically have folks sitting in, you know, in military type offices within North Korea who are dealing with this, maybe some in China, you know, but but that's about it.
And here what you had was clearly proxies.
Right.
No one's going to engage with with someone from North Korea directly.
So there's obviously proxies.
being used here.
There's a couple examples of this over the years.
We saw an arrest of a U.S.
person for facilitating the IT workers that were ultimately infiltrating a number of different crypto and tech projects who were U.S.
persons that were kind of supporting this effort.
So there are examples of this.
But to me, this was was pretty extraordinary and really chilling that North Korea could get Westerners essentially to do their bidding.
Ultimately, what they were able to do was gain access to the protocol itself.
And that's where you took that social engineering piece to then have that really sort of technical attack.
On March 27th, Drift migrated its security council to a new two out of five threshold configuration, which meant you only needed access to two of the five validators on that platform.
And North Korea was able to get access and breach there.
And what was also so extraordinary is this was programmatic.
On April 1st, there were pre-signed transactions were deployed, which resulted in 31 withdrawals in 12 minutes.
And then those funds start moving.
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