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The most insane long game hack of all time! North Korea built an entire trading firm Conference passes In-person meetings Multiple countries Half a year of Telegram messages and working sessions Even $1M of their own capital deposited to look legitimate Then when all the pieces were in place they stole $280M Drift just released the full incident background and it’s wild! Fall 2025: A "quant trading firm" approaches contributors of Drift at a major conference. They Follow up in person across multiple countries. Technically fluent. Verifiable backgrounds. Typical trust building stuff. December-March: They onboard a real Ecosystem Vault and attend working sessions They even deposit $1M to further build ‘trust’ The long con had set in and by early 2026, these weren't strangers anymore They had now built a 6-month working relationship Then they share some repos which is routine stuff The attack vector: a VSCode/Cursor vulnerability flagged by the security community throughout late 2025. Opening a file was enough. Silent code execution. No prompt. No warning. Nothing. The moment the exploit fired, every Telegram message and trace of malware was scrubbed clean No record or trace left Every team managing meaningful TVL is a target and no one is safe from professional jobs such as this Six months of infiltration and a trusted relationship, not just a sketchy email link The bug is patched but the real attack vector was the relationship and patience How do you protect against that? 🤯

So, let me get this straight. The $280m Drift hack took six months of: - Attending crypto conferences. - Meeting the team in person. Multiple times. - Depositing $1M of their own capital to build trust. - Sharing a GitHub link. The biggest DeFi exploit of the year started at a networking event with complimentary drinks.

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John McAfee on Satoshi Nakamoto's identity: "Let me give you some clues." "In Satoshi's white paper, every word that has dual spellings for American and British English is British. It is all British." "Every sentence is followed by two spaces. Now that's a minority choice in most, but two spaces." "There are only two that can be accused who were British, and only one of those has two spaces in every one of his papers." "Figure it out, people. It'll take you 15 minutes."