{"id":78848,"date":"2026-04-02T17:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78848"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:46:34","slug":"north-korea-strikes-again-285-million-exploit-raises-questions-for-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78848","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Strikes Again: $285 Million Exploit Raises Questions For Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Blockchain analytics firm <strong>Elliptic<\/strong> on Thursday flagged \u201cmultiple indicators\u201d that North Korea\u2019s state-sponsored hackers may be behind the $285 million exploit of <strong>Drift Protocol<\/strong>, the largest DeFi hack of 2026 so far that wiped out more than half of the Solana-based exchange\u2019s total value locked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arthur Hayes<\/strong>, BitMEX co-founder, <strong>Maelstrom<\/strong> CIO, and Drift Protocol advisor, pointed the finger at <strong>Solana<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"SOL\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/SOL-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>) itself. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Solana had native multi sig addresses, would the Drift hack even have been possible? Actually curious, not trolling,\u201d Hayes wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CryptoHayes\/status\/2039666930865393920?s=20\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ledger<\/strong> CTO <strong>Charles Guillemet<\/strong> drew a direct comparison to the $1.4 billion Bybit hack of 2025, which the FBI attributed to North Korea\u2019s Lazarus Group. <\/p>\n<p>The pattern is nearly identical: compromised multi sig signers, social engineering, and malicious transactions disguised as routine operations.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Lazarus Playbook<\/h2>\n<p>The hacker spent weeks setting up the attack. <\/p>\n<p>They created a fake token called &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51633954\/north-korea-strikes-again-285-million-exploit-raises-questions-for-circle?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"North\" korea strikes again: million exploit raises questions for circle>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic on Thursday flagged \u201cmultiple indicators\u201d that North Korea\u2019s state-sponsored hackers may be behind the $285 million exploit of Drift Protocol, the largest DeFi hack of 2026 so far that wiped out more than half of the Solana-based exchange\u2019s total value locked. Arthur Hayes, BitMEX co-founder, Maelstrom CIO, and Drift Protocol advisor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-78848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}