Nicole Perlroth
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first heard Jul 2026
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I think I, even someone who studies cyber for a living, had not paid very close attention to what North Koreans were doing with crypto.
But they have essentially become the masters of the blockchain.
We just don't know it yet.
What do you mean by that?
They started off basically hacking people's private wallets just by social engineering and phishing.
Yeah.
But then they really started to study the infrastructure of the blockchain.
And they started pulling off some heists that, to quote Rob Joyce, who used to run the NSA's hacking divisions, are some of the most sophisticated he's seen in his career.
They found their way into these bridges that convert...
you know, Ethereum into some other kind of cryptocurrency.
And they were able to funnel more than $600 million back to their own wallets in one case.
In the case of Bybit, you know, the second biggest cryptocurrency exchange,
They pulled off a heist that was like David Copperfield-esque.
They got the CEO of Bybit to approve what looked like a routine transfer when underneath the user interface, he was actually approving more than a billion dollars in transfers to North Korean wallets.
So this is now funding about half of
North Korea's regime.
It's responsible for about half of their total funding.
They need the money.
And if you read the coverage around Xi Jinping's visit to North Korea this year, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, they all wrote about, hey, like,
We don't know why, but North Korea seems to be doing just fine, despite being the most sanctioned nation on Earth.
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