Nicole Perlroth
speaker
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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Bangladesh showed North Korean hackers the art of the possible, but it also exposed the limits of robbing the global banking system.
Here's Nick Carlson, who was following all this from the FBI.
They experienced this potentially enormous windfall.
They don't get it all.
And that was really difficult to do.
The money was there, but the system still had too many choke points.
North Korea needed something faster, harder to trace, harder to freeze.
And right then, the world handed them cryptocurrency.
It's almost like an intervention by God, right?
That this opportunity arises to pivot from traditional banks into crypto.
And here's Adam Myers, the head of counter-adversary operations at CrowdStrike.
To steal crypto, North Korea didn't need to break into vaults or move bags of cash through casinos.
Crypto optimists trumpeted that the blockchain was immutable.
What is mutable, though, is the ecosystem the industry was building around the blockchain.
And with the frenzy of new blockchains and coins, all of it was being built at startup speed, with startup levels of security, the old move fast and break things approach.
And that created an opening.
North Korea's hackers realized the playbook they'd used at Sony and Bangladesh Bank, the phishing, fake personas, malware-laden documents, social engineering, well, it could be applied to crypto too.
And so they set to work understanding the crypto ecosystem.
And North Korea moved faster than almost everyone else, including the FBI.
I really resisted getting involved in the crypto stuff.
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