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Ronin’s Newsletter
Company blog · roninblockchain.substack.comsecuritybusiness
Ronin’s Newsletter is the company blog at roninblockchain.substack.com, writing about security and business. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Ronin Security Breach Postmortem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this newsletter for Ronin's post-mortem on the Axie Infinity hack. Comments cite it while discussing PDF-based attacks and North Korean crypto heists, without judging the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ronin Network News and Updates.
Most-linked posts?
- Ronin Security Breach Postmortem4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-29
What Hacker News says?
Here's a demonstration of some example attacks using pdf: executing arbitrary js, and connecting to a samba server: https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/malicious-pdfs-revealing-te... I'm not sure about this attack specifically, though, and in Ronin's post mortem they aren't really talking about that: https://roninblockchain.substack.com/p/back-to-building-roni... . To some extent, the PDF viewer/OS doesn't matter. A de…
Comment linking /p/back-to-building-ronin-security-breach
on “A fake job offer took down Axie Infinity”Submitted $625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network as a story · 569 points
HN discussionAs a blockchain security guy, it's really easy to spot the occasional North Korean heists on Ethereum. The big tells are: 1. They hack computers not code. Their normal plan is to steal keys by compromising users and computers. This is in contrast to the normal "hack" that works by finding and exploiting bugs in code. 2. They immediately exfiltrate the stolen money back to the real world via bazillions of mule accoun…
Comment linking /p/back-to-building-ronin-security-breach
on “North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year”Submitted Ronin Security Breach Postmortem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back to Building: Ronin Security Breach Postmortem as a story · 2 points
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