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 knew where the money moved and they knew where it was weakest.
The bridges.
Here's Coinbase's Heidi Wilder again.
That became glaringly obvious when the DPRK attacked the Ronin Bridge, the infrastructure connecting the Ronin blockchain to the broader crypto ecosystem.
It was 2022, the Ronin Bridge attack that got more than a half a million, I think 600 or 650 million dollars.
It's one of the largest crypto thefts ever.
That last voice was Rob Joyce, who previously ran the Cybersecurity Directorate and before that, all the hacking divisions at NSA.
And when Rob Joyce tells you that North Korea's crypto heists are some of the most sophisticated he's seen in his entire career, that's really saying something.
They look at the objective and they don't put any constraints on how they get to the objective.
They'll use social engineering.
They will use direct hacking tools.
They will use supply chain operations.
And they'll also analyze the ecosystem to figure out where the vulnerabilities are that maybe others are not aware of.
And they package all of that together to ensure success.
Okay, quick aside here.
The Ronin blockchain was developed specifically for the game Axie Infinity in 2021, which is wild when you think about the fact that this hack happened just 13 months later.
The game is a bit like Pokemon.
Players battle cute little creatures and earn tokens accordingly.
Wins translated into in-game crypto.
But if players wanted to cash out, to trade those assets more broadly or convert them into real money, they had to move them onto the Ethereum blockchain.
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