Drift Protocol Suffers $280 Million Exploit, Linked to North Korean Cybercriminals
Drift Protocol Suffers $280 Million Exploit, Linked to North Korean Cybercriminals
Decentralized exchange Drift Protocol has linked a recent $280 million exploit to a sophisticated six-month social engineering operation. Investigators, including the SEAL 911 team, have assessed with 'medium-high' confidence that the attack was perpetrated by the same North Korean state-sponsored actors previously implicated in the Radiant Capital hack.
With "medium-high" confidence, Drift and the SEAL 911 team assess the operation was run by the same North Korean actors behind the Radiant Capital hack.