North Korean state hackers have stolen more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over the past 18 months by pulling targets into fake Zoom and Teams calls filled with webcam footage of earlier victims. The FBI calls the scheme FaceStealer. It has seized more than 900 of those recordings, and on November 12 it warned crypto and web3 workers and open-source maintainers about the scheme.
Stolen webcam clips of 900+ victims feed North Korea’s $400 million fake Zoom scheme
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