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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
a pretty incredible hack and I suppose a big win maybe for the hackers.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
I'm curious to learn a bit more about them.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
So oftentimes we hear about, it's just like North Korea, sometimes we hear about a subgroup called Lazarus.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
I've also heard about Trader Trader, Bureau 121, like all of these different subgroups.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
And when I've heard people talk about this previously, it almost seems like there are these like decentralized groups within the North Korean government that maybe operate somewhat autonomously, but sometimes in a coordinated way.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
Can you give us a lay of the land for all of these various groups in North Korea, how they're incented, how they're structured?
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
Like, what do we know about them?
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
Six billion is what you said, right?
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
Yeah.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
Yeah, this was so scary about that drift hack.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
Keep coming back to that.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
It's almost like the idea of you could have sleeper cells out there, like infiltrated in your company.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
I mean, they waited months to pull this off.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
It almost had the sophistication of, like you read about massage, a massage, and what they're doing, what they did with kind of the pager attack, for instance.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
It's that level of nation state sophistication and patience.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
Like they set up a fake partnership, like a shell company with all of these, you just like fake.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
They made an investment in the company.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
They made an investment in the project.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
Yeah, just like incredible.
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Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime and How to Fight Back | Ari Redbord, TRM Labs
Yeah, yeah, yeah.