Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake

Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by wishfish on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:25AM (#32319778)

True, but it's funny how all these hijinks seemed so cool in the books. Jacking in while in a grimy Tokyo nightclub as your friend, the assassin with razorblades, watches your back. But in reality, it's just all so pathetic. Sometimes I feel like a cyberpunk fan in 1988 found a monkey's paw. Made a wish that it would all come true. And it did, but in a much more banal & sad way than the fan would have thought possible.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by rchaud on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:03PM (#32320447)

Replace the Tokyo nightclub with an air-conditioned military intelligence office in Pyongyang, where crypto is flooding in via ransomware payments and web3 exploits. That's the reality and it would still be quite sensational....as a Tom Clancy novel.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by kelseyfrog on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:27PM (#32320796)

That could just as easily be a chapter in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by woodruffw on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:54PM (#32322808)

Do you have evidence that North Korea makes up any significant amount of "Web3" exploits?

From my vantage point, it seems to be mostly bored twentysomethings.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by danielvf on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:19PM (#32323770)

I don't think this one was North Korea. And yes, most aren't.

North Korean cryptocurrency hacks are a bit distinctive. Rather than finding logical bugs in contracts, they tend to use traditional spearphishing / social eng to get targeted people to run malware which they try to pivot to stealing keys / access credentials. Then after a hack, most crypto hackers try to obfuscate and store their stole coins on chain somewhere. North Korea already has a large and practiced money laundering network, so after a hack the money immediately starts going to hundreds of different places in the real world, perhaps to mules or to faked accounts in Southeast Asia.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by Nitramp on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @07:26AM (#32330242)

https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-187a

Google: "North Korea Ransomware"

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by woodruffw on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:44AM (#32333268)

Where's the connection? Ransomware is the other side of the equation: using things like bitcoin to launder money. That's substantially different from exploiting cryptocurrencies.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by hilbertseries on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:35PM (#32320921)

I remember how disappointing the duos attack on dyn was several years ago. Science fiction had finally come true, peoples fridges and toasters had been turned into weapons. Become part of a bot net and checks notes took down some websites for a couple hours.

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by AceJohnny2 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:44PM (#32321960)

> And it did, but in a much more banal & sad way

"The future is already here, just unevenly distributed" and boring

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Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake by lostmsu on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @10:18AM (#32332014)

Matches my view of cyberpunk as comic books of sci-fi.

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