US Justice Department seizes infrastructure tied to North Korea’s $400M FaceStealer crypto scheme


Authorities disrupted a social-engineering operation that targeted crypto and Web3 workers and froze more than $1.2 billion tied to the Binance theft

The US Department of Justice has seized infrastructure behind North Korea’s FaceStealer scheme. It also froze more than $1.2 billion in crypto stolen from Binance.

FaceStealer is a social-engineering operation that reportedly generated thefts exceeding $400 million over the last 18 months. The people it targeted were mostly in crypto.