Key Findings North Korean state-sponsored hacking group UNC4736 orchestrated a six-month social engineering campaign against Drift, culminating in the theft of $285 million on April 1, 2026 The operation began in fall 2025 with actors posing as a quantitative trading firm, using in-person meetings at cryptocurrency conferences across multiple countries to build trust with Drift contributors UNC4736 is also tracked as AppleJeus, Citrine Sleet, Golden Chollima, and Gleaming Pis
