The Impersonator
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The Impersonator
They say the best place to hide a lie is between two truths.
Security researchers - our digital knights, first responders when blood pools in the protocol moat, sleuths who unravel complex exploits in code while the rest of us doom scroll through liquidations and broken dreams.
For over a year, the former Twitter user known as Nick Franklin (0xNickLFranklin), dutifully played this role, offering enlightened exploit breakdowns with nearly supernatural timing, analyzing every major exploit with surgical precision.
Trust built tweet by careful tweet.
All while allegedly working for North Korea.
The mask slipped when 1inch co-founder Anton Bukev exposed a poisoned apple - a malicious APP file masquerading as a security report, triggering an investigation that unraveled not just one operative but an entire network of digital spies.
Behind the carefully crafted persona of a helpful security researcher lurked a state-sponsored threat actor tied to multiple hacks, including Radiant Capital's $50M breach, building …
They say the best place to hide a lie is between two truths.
Security researchers - our digital knights, first responders when blood pools in the protocol moat, sleuths who unravel complex exploits in code while the rest of us doom scroll through liquidations and broken dreams.
For over a year, the former Twitter user known as Nick Franklin (0xNickLFranklin), dutifully played this role, offering enlightened exploit breakdowns with nearly supernatural timing, analyzing every major exploit with surgical precision.
Trust built tweet by careful tweet.
All while allegedly working for North Korea.
The mask slipped when 1inch co-founder Anton Bukev exposed a poisoned apple - a malicious APP file masquerading as a security report, triggering an investigation that unraveled not just one operative but an entire network of digital spies.
Behind the carefully crafted persona of a helpful security researcher lurked a state-sponsored threat actor tied to multiple hacks, including Radiant Capital's $50M breach, building …
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