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
FBI Says North Korean Hackers Stole Over $400 Million in Crypto Using Deepfake Video Calls
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