The Justice Department on Thursday announced coordinated actions against North Korean groups’ campaigns that have stolen billions of dollars in cryptocurrency, seizing cloud infrastructure behind a social engineering scheme known as FaceStealer and the court-authorized seizure of more than $1.2 billion stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
US seizes North Korean hacking infrastructure, $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance
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