FBI Says North Korean Hackers Stole Over $400 Million in Crypto Using Deepfake Video Calls
The FBI attributes more than $400 million in crypto theft to a DPRK-linked campaign called FaceStealer.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established that threat actors tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) have stolen more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of a social engineering scheme codenamed FaceStealer in the last 18 months. As part of a coordinated set of actions announced by the U.S. government, the cloud-based
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The alleged losses show how social engineering can turn convincing video calls into a route for large-scale cryptocurrency theft. The attribution also places the campaign within a broader U.S. government response to DPRK-linked activity.
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