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DOJ Seizes $1.2 Billion in Crypto Tied to North Korea's $6.3 Billion Binance Hack and Dismantles FaceStealer Deepfake Scheme
Read this in the Market Flux appThe U.S. Justice Department has seized more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance by North Korean hackers, marking one of the largest government crypto recoveries on record. The seizure is directly linked to the broader $6.3 billion Binance hack, which the FBI had previously attributed to the North Korean state-linked group TraderTraitor and identified as the largest cryptocurrency heist in history, surpassing the $1.5 billion Bybit theft in early 2025.
Alongside the asset seizure, the DOJ also dismantled a scheme identified as "FaceStealer," a deepfake operation that investigators tied to the same Binance hack. The deepfake scheme was used as part of the social engineering methods North Korean actors employed to infiltrate targets and launder stolen funds. North Korea has publicly denied involvement in the Binance theft, dismissing U.S. allegations as a provocation.
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- FinancialjuiceThe DoJ reports actions to disrupt North Korea’s cryptocurrency theft.
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- FirstSquawkTHE DOJ IS TO SEIZE $1.2 BLN WORTH OF CRYPTOCURRENCY STOLEN FROM BINANCE, REPORTING ACTIONS TO DISRUPT NORTH KOREA’S CRYPTOCURRENCY THEFT
- Cointelegraph🚨 BIG: The US Department of Justice seized infrastructure linked to North Korea’s $400 million FaceStealer crypto theft scheme and froze more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance.
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- PiQMarketsFBI says North Korean hackers stole over $400 million in crypto North Korean state-backed hackers stole more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over 18 months using secretly recorded images of people to target their contacts, the FBI said on November 12, 2026. The FBI calls the social engineering method FaceStealer and said targets are lured to video chats on imposter versions of Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet.
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