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…

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Mark Sanford quits House race after one month, says fighting national debt is better done outside politics

Republican Mark Sanford, the former governor and congressman of South Carolina, is abandoning his latest bid to retake his former seat, a month after declaring his candidacy. Instead, he will launch a nonprofit dedicated to solving the nation’s debt problem. Sanford, 65, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he would stop campaigning to focus…

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