Nicole Perlroth
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2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Jul
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And in the early days, those phishing attacks were aimed at something called a private key, essentially crypto's equivalent of a bank password.
Like 65 million Americans, Glenn Fishman of Denver owns cryptocurrency, or at least he did until last November.
The Coinbase caller sent him an email that looked legit with logos.
Eventually, a friend told Glenn, hey, you may be getting scammed.
Check your account now.
This was basically digital street mugging.
They would leverage the public nature of the blockchain to figure out which crypto wallet held a worthwhile amount of funds, then figure out who owned the wallet, a feat in itself, and then do whatever they could to socially engineer their way onto that person's machine.
And with access to their device, they would get the private key, drain that person's wallet, and move on to the next.
These phishing attacks are pretty simple, but no less effective.
Here's Matt Moeller again.
It's important in my mind to distinguish between unsophisticated TTPs versus unsophisticated threat actors.
TTPs stand for Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.
It's basically the how of these operations.
There's sort of a tendency in cybersecurity to conflate, like, is this technique new and fancy with, like, is the threat actor who's using this technique capable?
These low-level and relatively unsophisticated techniques, when applied by a threat actor that has no incentive to stop trying them, they're just going to be successful over time and at scale.
To be clear, North Korea's hackers never stopped fishing for private keys, especially in the lower-level hacking units.
That's been happening on a low flame for years.
It's just that more elite groups have pivoted to something far more lucrative.
So they haven't stopped doing the unsophisticated things.
They've just added more on top of that.
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