One minute I was prepping for a Zoom call. Ten minutes later, large part of my life savings were gone. It started with a message on Telegram from Alex Lin — someone I knew. He wanted to catch up. I shared my Calendly link. He booked a slot for the next day. A few minutes

> web3 security company implies there was a point in time when using insecure, hot, EOAs to control your protocol was an acceptable practice lmao

My wallets got drained and the hackers are out there scamming other people with my telegram handle. Please share this message and stop the hackers from hurting others. Block and report my old telegram handle if they try to message you!

These North Korean phishers just don't stop, I managed to get another fun one today, this one was interesting because they hijacked a known contact 🧵

New DPRK IT Workers 101 video. Must watch. Solid intel and sourcing on the profiles, names, faces, and facilitators. 😳

*rips off headset*

1/ Multiple projects tied to Pepe creator Matt Furie & ChainSaw as well as another project Favrr were exploited in the past week which resulted in ~$1M stolen My analysis links both attacks to the same cluster of DPRK IT workers who were likely accidentally hired as developers.

12/ Soon I plan to publish my stats on total payments being sent out to DPRK ITWs at companies/projects to provide insight into how bad it is. It’s depressing how many teams hire DPRK IT workers when basic due diligence would likely have prevented it. The lack of communication

DPRK Chat GPT Thread 🧵 God help this poor soul and his hemorrhoids. Lets hope it was an excuse for HR to go on leave.

Stay tuned for more news but nice catch over here. Few of these guys we recognize actually cc Narcass3 Cookie Connoisseur Tay 💖 wsbtv.com/news/local/nor…

1/ My recent investigation uncovered more than $16.58M in payments since January 1, 2025 or $2.76M per month has been sent to North Korean IT workers hired as developers at various projects & companies. To put this in perspective payments range from $3K-8K per month meaning

For literal centuries people have vetted other people by talking to each other. You talk to folks they have worked with / worked for. Ofc this is a nonstarter for the hyper-efficient geniuses of SV so they keep getting rugged + shouting "h O w d O y O u k N o W ? !" lol.

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