On November 12, 2026, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced two operations against North Korean networks involved in cryptocurrency theft. Authorities obtained a court order to seize or freeze more than $1.2 billion from the Binance hack. They also neutralized the cloud infrastructure of FaceStealer, a deepfake manipulation campaign responsible for over $400 million in crypto theft over 18 months. These two cases illustrate different methods but the same strategy of exploiting the crypto ecosystem.