🚨 NK’s Zoom Zingers Steal $300M – Cryptos Cry Uncle! 💸

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The DPRK’s cyber miscreants have, with commendable ingenuity, shifted their focus from the crude to the cunning. By masquerading as esteemed industry luminaries in phony video conferences, they’ve pilfered no less than $300 million-proof that even Kim Jong-un’s henchmen can appreciate the arts of deception and Zoom.

The dire missive, penned by MetaMask’s intrepid researcher Taylor Monahan (alias Tayvano), details a campaign so insidious it makes one question the very fabric of professional trust. A “long-con,” he calls it, targeting crypto barons who thought themselves immune to such sordid tricks. 🤖

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Monahan, that paragon of digital vigilance, notes the shift from AI deepfakes-yawn-to a more charming blend of old-world chicanery and modern malice. Hijacked Telegram accounts and looped clips from earnest interviews now do the heavy lifting. 🎥

🚨 URGENT (Yet Again)

DPRK villains persist in their merry plunder via counterfeit Zoom/Teams shindigs.

They hijack your Telegrams → use them to plunder your acquaintances’ coffers.

Over $300m spirited away thus far. Despair not! 🙏

– Tay 💖 (@tayvano_) December 13, 2025

The modus operandi? Seize a trusted Telegram account-preferably belonging to a venture capitalist or someone who once nodded at you across a conference buffet. Then, leveraging past chat banter, the villains shepherd victims to a Zoom or Teams call via a Calendly link cleverly disguised as legitimacy. 📅

Once the meeting commences, victims behold what appears a live video of their contact. In truth? A recycled podcast clip, repurposed with the enthusiasm of a thrift-store decorator. The pièce de résistance? A faux technical glitch. “Audio issues!” they cry, urging you to download a “fix”-a malicious script that grants them dominion over your digital life. 💻

This malware, often a Remote Access Trojan (RAT), then proceeds to drain crypto wallets and siphon sensitive data, including Telegram session tokens. These are, of course, weaponized to target the next hapless soul in your network. One might almost admire their efficiency… if not for the tears of cryptocurrency. 🦉

Monahan, that voice of reason, warns this vector weaponizes the very virtue of professional courtesy. Hackers exploit the psychological weight of a “business meeting” to induce a lapse in judgment, transforming a mundane software request into a catastrophic breach. For the crypto cognoscenti, any mid-call download prompt now merits a raised eyebrow-or a panic attack. 😬

Meanwhile, this “fake meeting” gambit is but one thread in DPRK’s broader tapestry of financial mayhem. Over the past year, they’ve siphoned an estimated $2 billion from the sector, including the infamous Bybit fiasco. A triumph of malice, one might say. Or a tragedy. Depends on whether you’re Kim or a crypto bro. 🌍

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2025-12-14 22:27