Elliptic: El ataque de Drift sospecha estar llevado a cabo por un grupo de hackers norcoreano

Golden Finance reports that blockchain analytics company Elliptic stated that the Drift Protocol suffered a loss of 285 million USD in the attack, and that “multiple signs” point to the DPRK hacker organization supported by North Korea. Elliptic focused on analyzing on-chain behavior, money-laundering methods, and network-layer signals, all of which matched the related attacks previously observed. Elliptic’s report said: “If confirmed, this will be the 18th DPRK attack action that Elliptic has tracked this year, with more than 300 million USD stolen to date.”
At the technical level, Elliptic analyzed the attack as “premeditated and carefully orchestrated,” with early test transactions and pre-positioned wallets already in place before the main attacks. After the attack was executed, the funds were quickly consolidated and transferred across chains, converted into higher-liquidity assets, and formed a well-organized, repeatable money-laundering process intended to obscure the source of funds while maintaining control.
This incident involves more than ten types of assets. Funds were transferred across chains from Solana to Ethereum and other chains, further highlighting the importance of cross-chain tracing capabilities. Drift Protocol is the largest decentralized perpetual contract trading platform on the Solana blockchain, and its token has fallen by more than 40% to about 0.06 USD since the hack occurred.