North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400m crypto hack, says FBI
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- More than 900 victims are thought to have fallen prey to the FaceStealer scheme in the last 18 months.
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- The Department of Justice and FBI announced two separate actions in response to North Korea-linked cryptocurrency theft operations.
- Also Thursday, the FBI blamed North Korea for a separate social engineering scheme that officials say resulted in the theft of $400 million worth of cryptocurrency. The post FBI Says US Seized $1.2 Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Binance appeared first on SecurityWeek .
- The US has seized servers linked to a North Korean scam that used fake video meetings and deepfakes to steal more than $400 million in crypto, and has moved to seize $1.2 billion that was taken from Binance.
- North Korean state hackers have stolen more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over the past 18 months by pulling targets into fake Zoom and Teams calls filled with webcam footage of earlier victims. The FBI calls the scheme FaceStealer. It has seized more than 900 of those recordings, and on…
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- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established that threat actors tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) have stolen more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of a social engineering scheme codenamed FaceStealer in the last 18 months.…