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
But then the laundering begins.
And North Korea launders differently than certain actors.
They want to move the funds as fast as they can.
They're going to use services, mixers and other types of services to obfuscate the transactions, but they're actually less worried.
Well, they're not worried at all about getting caught.
What they were worried about is getting those funds off ramped as fast as they can in order to use them.
You know, it's hard to say what exactly they're being used for, but everything in North Korea is being used for weapons research, for missiles, who knows, for Crown Royal, for the regime.
You know, it is being used to prop up a rogue regime, essentially.
But that is really sort of the interesting laundering piece.
North Korea needs to move the funds as fast as they can to get them to off-ramp, to use them, and they're going to lose some of that.
We see that in the Bybit case.
We see that in the Ronin Bridge case.
But they'll get enough off where this certainly becomes very, very valuable.
Certainly hard to say, but I don't know that there's been any economy within North Korea over the last couple of decades that could have done a billion dollars a year on average for the regime.
And I think what we're really concerned about right now in this moment, why we're having this conversation, is that this year, now North Korea is the vast majority of hacks.
And the drift hack feels like a playbook.
And how many of these are in line, essentially, in tow right now in order to try to go after?
So my concern is that there have been a number of really key moments when it comes to North Korea.
You mentioned the Ronin Bridge.
It was a $600 million hack, which at the time was absolute game changer.
Showing 121–140 of 886 · page 7 of 45
← Previous
Next →