The U.S. Department of Justice secured court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen during the Binance hack around October 29. The FBI attributed the attack to TraderTraitor, a hacking operation linked to North Korea’s military, which stole more than $6 billion in digital assets. The amount is included in the broader $2.7 billion already frozen through cooperation between U.S. agencies and private companies and does not represent an additional recovery. In a separate operation known as FaceStealer, authorities disrupted North Korean cloud infrastructure used to steal more than $400 million in cryptocurrency through scams based on deepfakes and social engineering.
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