U.S. Justice Department Freezes $2.7 Billion in Stolen Binance Funds, FBI Warns of FaceStealer Attacks

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on November 13 that it has frozen or secured approximately $2.7 billion in stolen Binance assets in coordination with two major stablecoin issuers, representing nearly half of the $6 billion-plus total stolen from the exchange.

The FBI's cyber division warned the same day that North Korean hackers are using a social engineering technique called FaceStealer to steal cryptocurrency assets through impersonation of video conferencing platforms and supply chain attacks.

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