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April 1, 2026·Cryptocurrency

Six-month DPRK social engineering operation preceded $285M Drift Protocol theft

Drift Protocol · Unknown

Drift Protocol lost $285 million on April 1, 2026. Beginning in autumn 2025, people posing as a quantitative trading firm approached Drift contributors in person at cryptocurrency conferences, opening Telegram groups at first contact and holding months of substantive conversations about trading strategies and vault integrations. Between December 2025 and January 2026 the group deposited over $1 million to onboard an Ecosystem Vault on Drift, establishing legitimacy inside the ecosystem. Attribution to a North Korean cluster carries medium confidence.

Vendor / Supply Chain Impersonation
$285.0M funds lostReported2 sources

Entry types: Incident, Campaign, Benchmark. Aggregate agency statistics are kept as benchmarks and are never summed into the counters. Methodology. Machine-readable version of this page: global-social-engineering-impact-da.vercel.app/api/incidents?q=UNC4736+%2F+AppleJeus+%2F+Citrine+Sleet+%2F+Golden+Chollima+%2F+Gleaming+Pisces+%28DPRK%29%2C+medium+confidence.