NYPOST · 2026-11-13 01:31 UTC

FBI reveals cunning ruse North Korean hackers used in massive crypto heist as feds claw back $1.2B

Federal authorities announced they seized more than $1.2 billion in stolen digital assets and froze over $2.7 billion more of stolen funds. North Korean hackers stole more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over 18 months using a social engineering scheme called "FaceStealer," involving fake video calls, deepfakes and a staged audio error. The article links this to a $6.3 billion theft from Binance and says the FBI seized more than 900 webcam videos of victims and cloud servers used in the scheme.

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