DeFi security researcher implicated in $50M Radiant Capital hack
A prolific blockchain security researcher and smart contract hack investigator going by the name Nick L. Franklin is suspected of involvement in October’s $50 million hack on Radiant Capital, carried out by the notorious North Korean hacking collective Lazarus Group. Fellow security researchers were alerted to suspicious behaviour by decentralized exchange 1inch’s Anton Bukov, and began digging into the messaging history of Franklin’s (now deleted) Telegram account. Beware of @0xNickLFranklin (https://t.co/YuHYAvEerT), he is very likely a scammer pretending to be a security engineer. He sent me an APP file as a report and erased our chat and banned me after I asked WTF. — Anton Bukov (e/acc) (@k06a) March 26, 2025 Read more: Radiant Capital’s $50M crypto hack underlines DeFi’s multisig dependence For well over a year, Franklin’s handle has been consistently active in crypto security-focused Telegram groups. In the wake of even small dollar-value hack...