Nicole Perlroth
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1,851 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Jul
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In some cases, they're helping build it from the inside.
We've got several North Koreans working at crypto startups.
It's clearly a priority.
And again and again, cryptos were the lines blur fastest between the IT workers who get hired and the hacking teams that come in just behind them.
And as crypto goes mainstream and moves deeper into the financial system, North Korea won't be chasing it.
They'll already be there, waiting inside.
You're kind of nailing it right now.
And this is really my biggest fear, because it's not that, you know, they're hacking crypto exchanges.
Really, they were there from the beginning.
They're not hacking these things as much as they've developed these Web3 protocols.
i first found out what the bitcoin was i mean i'd like to think that we were pretty cutting edge on some of that stuff but even when you and i first found out what it was they had already absolutely master class they had already handled to begin with when you see these guys inside these forums they're not asking questions like hey what is ethereum what's this product they're asking very in-depth detailed questions they already know exactly what they're looking for and they've been a part of that development cycle all the way from the beginning
And I think this really plays into who they are as a whole, because when you think of emerging technologies, when you think of everything new coming out, criminals, and that's what North Korea is, it's a criminal nationwide syndicate.
They will always latch on to these things before anyone else will.
They're early adopters, but they're also patient craftsmen.
They spend years mastering whatever gives them an edge.
And the next generation of tools is already falling into reach.
AI systems that find vulnerabilities, impersonate people, scale fraud, and exploit human mistakes without fatigue.
The people who study North Korea for a living have no doubt they'll master those tools too and turn them back on us, either from the outside or through the access their IT workers have already gained.
And that's why they worry less about the attacks we've already seen and more about the ones we're only beginning to imagine.
The thing with North Korea is every time we see them, they're doing something new and something different.
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