‘It reads like a spy novel’: $280 million theft from Drift involved North Korean fake companies, cutouts The Drift cryptocurrency platform published its full post-mortem this week describing an extensive, months-long operation by North Korean hackers that culminated in the theft of more than $280 million. Drift officials said the operation began six months ago, when they were approached at a cryptocurrency conference by members of a company claiming to focus on quantitative trading. The company is never named in the post-mortem but was linked to UNC4736, a North Korean state-affiliated group also tracked as AppleJeus or Citrine Sleet. The people who approached Drift workers were technically fluent, had a deep knowledge of Drift and had “verifiable professional backgrounds.” Drift said…