FBI: North Korean hackers stole cryptocurrency worth hundreds of millions of dollars

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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed an attack method it calls "face thief." According to the findings, hackers linked to Pyongyang break into the accounts of known contacts and secretly record them during Zoom and Teams calls.

Hackers use the recordings and deepfake technology to impersonate the contacts and lure victims into fake calls. Through this impersonation they take over digital wallets and transfer cryptographic tokens.

The FBI said that over 18 months cryptocurrency worth $400 million was stolen. In addition, the US Department of Justice announced that it received court approval to seize or freeze cryptocurrency assets stolen from the Binance exchange at the end of October, in an attack in which more than $6 billion was stolen, of which more than $2.7 billion has been frozen. Assets worth $1.2 billion were seized.