Solana-based decentralized exchange Drift Protocol said on Sunday the attack that drained roughly $285 million from the platform was a structured six-month intelligence operation by a North Korean state-affiliated threat group. The attackers used fabricated professional identities, in-person conference meetings, and malicious developer tools to compromise contributors before executing the drain, the protocol said in a detailed incident update. "Crypto teams are now facing adversaries that operate more like intelligence units than hackers, and most organizations are not structurally prepared for that level of ... (full story)