The long con: How North Korean spies spent months in-person to drain $285 million from Drift
North Korean government-backed hackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated and more precise, currently responsible for more than 76% of cryptocurrency losses, or nearly $600 million, this year alone. For example, the $285 Drift Protocol vulnerability involved what TRMLabs described as a long-term and “unprecedented face-to-face social engineering” attack. These included months of face-to-face meetings between North…
