How North Korea's 6-month long secret espionage program has crypto community rethinking security

For years, the DeFi industry has treated security as a technical problem: something that could be solved with better code. But the Drift incident suggests something far more complex: that the real vulnerabilities may lie outside the codebase altogether. What to know : The $270M Drift exploit wasn’t a traditional smart contract hack but a months-long social engineering campaign, signaling a shift in DeFi threats from code vulnerabilities to human targets and intelligence-style operations. In response, DeFi protocols are rethinking security beyond audits — focusing on operational security, team vulnerabilities, and designing systems that assume even trusted actors can be compromised.