Nicole Perlroth
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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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so i was looking into the code and it had this unregistered web address and we see like a lot of unregistered web addresses in our work so we were pretty used to seeing like these malware families reaching out to unregistered web addresses and then we would go and register them causing the malware to connect to our server so seeing that unregistered domain i didn't even think twice about registering it i was like great as soon as i register this domain we're going to see every single wanna cry infection connecting to our system
What he'd actually found was a kill switch.
The minute Marcus registered the domain, WannaCry just stopped.
It netted less than $200,000 in payouts that day, but it wrought an estimated $8 billion in damages.
North Korea learned a few lessons from WannaCry.
One, dot your I's and cross your T's.
Two, desperate victims will pay.
And a spate of North Korean ransomware attacks descended on the United States.
But as North Korea's hackers familiarized themselves with crypto and the blockchain, they realized something profound.
Crypto wasn't just useful for ransom payouts, it offered access to liquid cash.
And not just that, for the first time in history, you could peer directly into the financial system and see exactly where staggering pools of money were sitting.
Whales.
As Heidi Wilder, a Coinbase security researcher, put it,
So you know, okay, at minimum, I could make this amount of money.
Hmm, might be worth adding a couple of people to look into this.
And that's exactly what North Korea did.
Because in Heidi's words, the DPRK is a... Well-run industrial complex.
If you've followed reporting on North Korean hacking, you've probably heard the term Lazarus Group.
It's the industry's catchall for North Korea's hackers, but you won't hear me use it here because it obscures something important.
North Korea's hackers are not a monolith.
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