$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation

2026-04-05T19:24:08Z64605bd83399e2aac6ab8377136a7d8a1a630e65331b529c4b787a1bf07a3ef1
Cisco-IMCDPRKDeFiDriftFortiClient-EMSReact2ShellSolanaUNC1069mobile-malwarenpmphishingsocial-engineeringsupply-chainweb-shellszero-day

What happened

The feed highlights a wave of high-impact incidents and active exploits across multiple ecosystems. Key stories: a DPRK-linked six-month social engineering operation drained $285M from Solana DEX Drift; Google and others attribute the Axios npm supply-chain compromise to North Korean UNC1069; researchers found 36 malicious npm packages abusing Redis/PostgreSQL to deploy persistent implants; and multiple actively exploited vulnerabilities were patched — Fortinet FortiClient EMS (CVE-2026-35616), Cisco IMC (CVE-2026-20093), and a Chrome/Dawn zero-day (CVE-2026-5281). Large-scale abuse of React2s

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2026-04-05T19:24:08Z
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