The United States Department of Justice announced Thursday that
it will seize $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance,
as part of efforts to disrupt North Korean government schemes to
finance the regime through large-scale crypto theft.

“North Korean cyber actors have used the FaceStealer scheme to
aggressively target individuals in the cryptocurrency and Web3
sectors through deceptive social engineering tactics, resulting in
the theft of more than $400 million in the last 18 months,” FBI
Cyber Branch…