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Drift Protocol Exploit: When Social Engineering Becomes the Real Attack Surface
What happened ? Drift Protocol recently disclosed a highly sophisticated exploit, not through a typical smart contract bug, but via a six-month-long social engineering campaign . Attackers posed as a legitimate quantitative trading firm, built real-world relationships at conferences, and gradually gained trust before deploying malicious code through GitHub repositories, TestFlight apps, and developer tooling. Why it matters ? This wasn’t a quick hack it was patient, identit
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Apr 82 min read
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