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The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, is reeling after a hack estimated at nearly six billion dollars, and blockchain investigators are pointing a familiar finger at North Korea's Lazarus Group. If confirmed, it would mark one of the most consequential crypto heists ever traced back to a nation-state actor.
Lazarus isn't just getting bolder, it's getting smarter. Security researchers at Kaspersky and Check Point have documented a new campaign called Operation FlashHole, active since at least July of this year, targeting South Korean firms across software, construction, and telecom. What makes this notable is the group's use of post-quantum encryption to shield their malware payloads, a design choice that suggests they're thinking not just about evading today's defenses, but tomorrow's as well.
Stepping back from the cutting edge for a moment, Hacker News surfaced a quiet link to the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a nearly four-thousand-year-old Egyptian document that contains some of humanity's earliest recorded mathematics. It's a useful reminder that every system we build today rests on a very long chain of human problem-solving.
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