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The Ethereum Foundation disclosed on Thursday that its six-month ETH Rangers Program – operated in conjunction with the Ketman Project and the Security Alliance (SEAL) – detected approximately 100 IT workers linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea embedded across 53 crypto projects, while simultaneously recovering $5.8 million in funds and surfacing more than 785 vulnerabilities, with the findings published the same week the U.S. Justice Department announced that two American nationals had been sentenced to at least seven years in prison for helping DPRK operatives pose as U.S.-based developers to infiltrate roughly 100 domestic companies.
We suspect this is less a story about one foundation’s security program and more a structural signal about how deeply state-sponsored labor infiltration has penetrated the crypto hiring pipeline – and how poorly equipped most projects remain to detect it.
The ETH Rangers Program has wrapped up and the results speak for themselves: $5.8M+ recovered, 785+ vulnerabilities reported, 100+ DPRK operatives identified, and so much more.
A decentralized defence for a decentralized network.
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— EF Ecosystem Support Program (@EF_ESP) April 16, 2026
The industry’s exposure here is not primarily technical. It is procedural: verification gaps
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