The U.S. Department of Justice authorized the seizure and freezing of more than $1.2 billion stolen in the October 29 hack of Binance. That amount brings the total frozen to $2.7 billion out of the $6.3 billion stolen, leaving about $3.6 billion in circulation. The FBI attributes the attack to TraderTraitor, a North Korean group also responsible for the February 2025 Bybit hack. Authorities also dismantled FaceStealer, a campaign that used fake Zoom or Microsoft Teams calls, deepfakes, and malicious software to drain victims’ wallets. The scheme generated more than $400 million in stolen funds over eighteen months before the FBI seized over 900 compromised webcam videos and the cloud infrastructure used to distribute them.
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