Cryptocurrency5 Apr 2026SEO 801 min read

Analysis: Drift says $270 million exploit was a six-month North Korean intelligence opera…

Attackers posed as a trading firm, met Drift contributors in person across multiple countries, deposited $1 million of their own capital, and waited half a yea…

Attackers posed as a trading firm, met Drift contributors in person across multiple countries, deposited $1 million of their own capital, and waited half a year before executing the drain CoinDesk detailed earlier this week. A North Korean state-linked group spent roughly six months infiltrating Drift Protocol under the guise of a quantitative trading firm before executing a $270 million exploit on April 1. The attackers built trust by meeting Drift contributors at conferences, depositing more…

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