By Isaac • July 18, 2026 10:22 am •
Consensys says a software consultant linked to North Korea made it into MetaMask development work through one of the company’s outside service providers.
The public trail is short, but it is concrete. A GitHub account tied to the consultant by Drop Site News authored 20 commits that were merged into public MetaMask repositories from early March into early April.
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That count requires some discipline. It documents a month of accepted engineering contributions; it does not prove that malicious code shipped, or that the consultant reached private keys, wallet secrets or production funds.
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Drop Site News reported
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