Nicole Perlroth
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1,851 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Jul
Nicole Perlroth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They pretended they were a guy named Razal Alam, and they said, I'm Razal Alam, and I'm extremely excited about the idea of becoming part of your company.
Here's my resume and cover letter.
But it wasn't just a resume.
That document actually was an executable.
Instead of just displaying his resume on your screen, it would actually begin running code on your system.
And just like that, North Korea's hackers were inside the bank.
But they didn't steal money right away.
They waited.
And this is critical, especially when you think about the North Korean IT workers lurking in our systems today.
They spent nearly a year mapping the bank's network, studying how the systems work together, hunting for the bank's connection to something called SWIFT.
SWIFT is the mechanism in which banks all over the world transfer money.
But SWIFT itself doesn't transfer the money.
SWIFT is really a communications protocol, like a chat messaging system that allows banks to send messages to each other to say, hey, I want to transfer two million from this account to this account.
The banks then do that debiting and crediting.
SWIFT doesn't do that.
And so that Swift system is really based on trust.
So if I'm logged into my Swift account and I send you a message and say, please debit two million, you trust that what I'm doing is accurate and the truth.
And I have vetted, for example, the company who's deciding to debit those amounts.
Most banks would have a separate room that would have their Swift terminal.
So it's just a computer that had the Swift software on it, that messaging software.
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