🚨🚨 THE U.S. GOES AFTER $1.2 BILLION FROM THE BINANCE MEGA-HACK! 🚨🚨
THE FBI DISMANTLES A DEEPFAKE NETWORK THAT STOLE MORE THAN $400 MILLION IN CRYPTO
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on November 12 a crackdown on two cybercrime operations linked to North Korea.
The first move targets the historic Binance hack of October 29, in which more than $6 billion in digital assets were stolen.
U.S. authorities and their private-sector partners have managed to freeze more than $2.7 billion. In addition, the Department of Justice obtained court authorization to seize or restrict more than $1.2 billion of those funds.
The FBI attributes the attack to the North Korean group known as TraderTraitor.
But the operation didn’t end there.
Authorities also dismantled infrastructure used by FaceStealer, a campaign that allegedly generated more than $400 million in cryptocurrency theft over the past 18 months.
Its method was unsettling: they used fake video calls, recordings, and deepfakes to impersonate people the victims trusted. Then they faked technical problems and convinced victims to install malicious programs capable of compromising their devices and stealing their assets.
The FBI seized more than 900 webcam videos related to the victims.
One important detail: Binance had said it would absorb the financial impact of the hack and that it had already replenished 98% of the affected assets as of October 31.
Now, the U.S. crackdown opens a new chapter in the pursuit of those responsible and the tracking of the funds.
Are we witnessing the biggest crackdown yet on North Korean cryptocurrency theft networks?
#shark593 #Shark593News #Binance #ciberseguridad #CoreaDelNorte
THE FBI DISMANTLES A DEEPFAKE NETWORK THAT STOLE MORE THAN $400 MILLION IN CRYPTO
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on November 12 a crackdown on two cybercrime operations linked to North Korea.
The first move targets the historic Binance hack of October 29, in which more than $6 billion in digital assets were stolen.
U.S. authorities and their private-sector partners have managed to freeze more than $2.7 billion. In addition, the Department of Justice obtained court authorization to seize or restrict more than $1.2 billion of those funds.
The FBI attributes the attack to the North Korean group known as TraderTraitor.
But the operation didn’t end there.
Authorities also dismantled infrastructure used by FaceStealer, a campaign that allegedly generated more than $400 million in cryptocurrency theft over the past 18 months.
Its method was unsettling: they used fake video calls, recordings, and deepfakes to impersonate people the victims trusted. Then they faked technical problems and convinced victims to install malicious programs capable of compromising their devices and stealing their assets.
The FBI seized more than 900 webcam videos related to the victims.
One important detail: Binance had said it would absorb the financial impact of the hack and that it had already replenished 98% of the affected assets as of October 31.
Now, the U.S. crackdown opens a new chapter in the pursuit of those responsible and the tracking of the funds.
Are we witnessing the biggest crackdown yet on North Korean cryptocurrency theft networks?
#shark593 #Shark593News #Binance #ciberseguridad #CoreaDelNorte
