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