For years, the DeFi industry has treated security as a technical problem: something that could be solved with better code. But the Drift incident suggests something far more complex: that the real vulnerabilities may lie outside the codebase altogether. The $270M Drift exploit wasn’t a traditional smart contract hack but a months-long social engineering campaign, signaling a shift in DeFi threats from code vulnerabilities to human targets and intelligence-style operations. In response, DeFi pro…
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