North Korean fake recruiters infect 30K devices, steal $10.7M in crypto
Ten point seven million dollars from 30,000 infected devices sounds like a lot until you remember this is basically a rounding error in crypto's weekly crime budget. And yet here I am, still clicking links in Discord DMs like a raccoon going through a trash can hoping to find a job offer instead of a wallet drainer.
The actual lesson is boring but real: most of these hacks start with a fake recruiter, a fake Zoom link, or a fake "let's do a test task" and end with your seed phrase gone. $BTC is sitting near $81K and $ETH around $2,660, so there's plenty to steal, which means the phishing ROI stays high. My take: cold wallets and a burner device for anything job-related, because the scam economy doesn't care how long you've been in this since 2018.
Compare that to $ARB, up roughly 4% today near $0.21, where the biggest risk is just token unlocks and weak demand, not a guy named "HR Manager Kim" DMing you on Telegram.