The Hacker News and others describe a North Korea linked operation that built trust for six months, used malicious code and a fake wallet app, and stole 285 million dollars from Drift, highlighting social engineering as initial access at scale.
North Korea-linked hackers spent 6 months building trust before stealing $285M from Drift.
They posed as a trading firm, met contributors in person, deposited $1M+, then used malicious code and a fake wallet app to gain access.
spend 6 months cosplaying as a quant fund. hitting conferences, shaking hands, dropping $1M of real money into the protocol
all so one dev would clone a repo
patience is the scariest exploit
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