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've evolved into a sprawling, highly organized military operation, specialized units with distinct missions, distinct targets, and increasingly sophisticated expertise.
So it's not even like the Chinese where they're subcontracting stuff out to some talented hacker.
These are actually like the state doing this.
So it's a degree of organization nobody else has.
Here's TRM Labs' Ari Redbird again.
I blanch now when people use the term state-sponsored or even Lazarus to describe what's happening in North Korea.
Because to me, that sort of has a state-sponsored feel to it.
It's not state-sponsored.
It is the state.
And it's not just government types that don't like the term Lazarus.
The industry hates it, too.
Here's Adam Myers from CrowdStrike again.
The reality is that the blanket term Lazarus hardly does justice to what we're actually up against here.
North Korea has built an entire ecosystem of specialized hackers, crypto thieves, espionage teams, social engineers that all ultimately report up to the RGB, North Korea's primary intelligence service.
Sanctions monitors and firms like CrowdStrike now describe an operation that looks less like one rogue hacker gang and more like a mature global intelligence apparatus.
In the beginning, North Korea's hackers were mostly focused on intel collection, but as revenue generation became more of a priority, they tapped the best of the best to crypto.
What North Korean cyber operations all have in common is social engineering, the manipulation of people.
The difference is that North Korea's elite operators layer technical expertise on top of that mastery.
And when they downloaded it, it actually came with malware.
And that's how they got in.
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