Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake
by danielvf on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:19PM
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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.
Re:Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake
by Nitramp on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @07:26AM
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https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-187a
Google: "North Korea Ransomware"
From my vantage point, it seems to be mostly bored twentysomethings.