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Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of interest I looked up who controls the DNS root servers: Europe (2): RIPE and Netnod AB. RIPE is Europe’s RIR, run as a conference by European ISPs. Netnod is a Swedish ISP. Asia (1): Project WIDE, part of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. US (9): Verisign, Cogent, NASA, US Department of Defense, US Army, the University of Maryland, ISC (as in the Bind9 people), ICANN itself, and the University of Southern Cal…
DNS != The internet. You can still use the internet without access to the DNS root servers
+1, One cab likely also presume that especially DNS at the root level is already handled locally for NK. They reportedly have their own intranet so presumably they also have common services like DNS hosted their.
Re: Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat
#163US/Canada 2024, $3 billion in fines by US regulators, https://rupakghose.substack.com/p/td-banks-aml-issues-and-fi... > DoJ investigation found.. [banking] business had been used to launder more than $650m between 2016 and 2021 from US fentanyl sales for Chinese crime groups and drug traffickers. Canada 2018, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33918115 > An estimated $5.3 billion of laundered money into B.C. real e…
BOOK TO READ: Wilful Blindness: How a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper - an investigative Canadian journalist, to get a deep dive into how long this has been going on.
This current government in power [9 years now; the Trudeau Liberal-NDP majority voting power coalition] has done nothing but to allow rampant fraud including this to continue; Trudeau himself on video has stated he admires China's basic dictatorship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8FuHuUhNZ0
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#164Serious question, if the United States decided to unilaterally cut North Korea off from the Internet, how hard would that be to do? Could we just knock out a few cables? North Korea pretty much only uses the Internet for scams Or to make money in violation of sanctions. They certainly don’t allow their citizens to use it for anything else, and they don’t allow their citizens to leave the country because they would ne…
> They certainly don’t allow their citizens to use it for anything else, and they don’t allow their citizens to leave the country because they would never come back. I never thought about it like this but it’s the largest open air prison on earth.
nope, earth is the biggest open air prison ;) and only guard it needs is the gravity.
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#166Question from my curious mind. How are the Metamask instances of specific device getting replaced by modified/malware-d version? How does that even work?
Basically they first need to get a remote shell and are then able to replace the extension source with the modified one. This article does a good job explaining it more in depth.[0] 0: https://securelist.com/the-bluenoroff-cryptocurrency-hunt-is...
Thanks! That is some extensive level of social engineering, reconnaissance and exploiting. Takes a lot of patience and discipline to pull such sophisticated heist.
Re: Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat
#167US/Canada 2024, $3 billion in fines by US regulators, https://rupakghose.substack.com/p/td-banks-aml-issues-and-fi... > DoJ investigation found.. [banking] business had been used to launder more than $650m between 2016 and 2021 from US fentanyl sales for Chinese crime groups and drug traffickers. Canada 2018, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33918115 > An estimated $5.3 billion of laundered money into B.C. real e…
> Australia Don't worry, Australia's going to fix that! By making "harming public confidence in the banking system or financial markets" "serious harm" under the upcoming Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024. And by "fix", I mean "suppress discussion about", of course.
Can't have malinformation that may make the so-called King(s) look bad..
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both conflicts were about punishment and troop training, and they achieved that. If they wanted to they could have razed every square km with conventional weapons alone.
Americans keep saying this and it makes me laugh every time, because you didn't learn anything from Vietnam. Just like in Vietnam, the stated goal was to replace the government - in this case, to remove the Taliban - that's why you created the Afghan National Army and their flimsy democracy. All told, the US has spent $8 trillion and several thousand young men on the GWOT. Once the US pulled out, the Taliban strolled…
> and immigrants flooding Europe
You are blaming the US for that?
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no shortage of things to complain about regarding the U.S., but its First Amendment is pretty great IMHO.
I wanted to comment that any country has something about freedom of speech in their constitution, the problem is usually that the government doesn't respect its own law. But when I went to compare american and russian constitutions and if you only judge the text, the us is worded better. In russian it's simply "freedom of speech is guaranteed to anyone" while in the us it's more specific about not creating new laws h…
It was once said by a famous african dictator:
“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”
― Forest Whitaker
So maybe it is like this. It's a funny thing to say, because in this mindset there is freedom literally to do anything. Consequences come after, minutes, hours, days, years, but after and not before, at least not until OpenAI-Google's new "PrescientCrimeCAItcher" comes online.
These "community guidelines" are quite frustrating because a major communication modality presently does not have freedom of speech, it has removal of speech it does not like. So that's an interesting loophole legalese-wise. Presently these are private sector companies running addicting entertaining boards from which they serve ads for profit. If these are instead made to be "utilities" like power or water, utilities of communication, I would imagine the calculus would change
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
with clean funds launch a new token and create a liquidity pool on uniswap with another set of clean funds in a second address you buy that token in the liquidity pool with the dirty funds in the third address you also buy the token and dont stop buying, you use all the dirty funds the second address sells, and you just are another lucky crypto trader with another 10,000% gain, indistinguishable from any other crypto…
If you think modern chain analysis can't look through those simple schemes, I'm happy the ecosystem seems more naive than I thought :) Oh well, easier for criminals to get caught I suppose, so not much harm done.
All the indictments I’ve seen involve basically zero OPSEC while all the others go unindicted
Its not about the chain analysis, its about proof. Any random charting site will raise flags about the token buyers, but can the prosecutor use that? The cases arent being brought