The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced coordinated actions on Thursday to disrupt North Korea’s record-breaking virtual currency theft, including obtaining court authorization to seize over $1.2 billion stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
The actions target two separate operations attributed to North Korean state-sponsored cybercriminals: a social engineering campaign dubbed “FaceStealer” and the theft of approximately $6.36 billion in virtual assets from Binance in late October, the DOJ said in a press release Thursday.
As part of the FaceStealer operation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced the disruption of cloud-based infrastructure used by North Korean





