FBI reveals cunning ruse North Korean hackers used in massive crypto heist as feds claw back $1.2B
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The Justice Department said authorities seized the cloud servers used in the social engineering scheme, dubbed “FaceStealer.”
Federal authorities pulled back the curtain on North Korean hackers’ devious methods for stealing hundreds of millions in cryptocurrency while announcing the agency had seized more than $1.2 billion in stolen digital assets.
The revelation comes after state cybercriminals stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, in a theft deemed “the largest bank heist in human history.”
In addition to the billion-dollar seizure, the Department of Justice announced it had also frozen more than $2.7 billion of the stolen funds.
Federal prosecutors also uncovered a separate scheme North Korean hackers used to steal more than $400 million in crypto over 18 months, using fake video calls, deepfakes and a phony “audio error.”
The Justice Department said Thursday that federal authorities seized the cloud servers used in the social engineering scheme, dubbed “FaceStealer.”
As part of the ploy, cybercriminals send a video-meeting invitation from an account they stole from someone the victim knows, who was also the scammers’ previous target.
When the new mark joins the meeting, the hackers secretly start recording their webcam video. To make the call look legitimate, the crooks play a prerecorded video of the previous victim, or of other people the target knows. The setup makes it look as if trusted contacts are on the call.
As the call goes on, the hackers stage a fake technical problem, like claiming the target can’t be heard, and then send a link or prompt to fix it.
That “fix” quietly installs malware on the target’s computer. From there, the victim loses control of the device and everything on it is exposed. The hackers can steal cryptocurrency or use the target’s access to other systems.
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