US disrupts North Korean campaign behind $400 million crypto theft
The U.S. government has disrupted a North Korean social engineering campaign called 'FaceStealer', responsible for stealing more than $400 million in cryptocurrency. [...]
Phishing, spear phishing, business email compromise and social engineering.
The U.S. government has disrupted a North Korean social engineering campaign called 'FaceStealer', responsible for stealing more than $400 million in cryptocurrency. [...]
The DOJ seized over $1.2 billion from North Korea ‘s Binance theft, and says the same hackers are targeting open-source developers The U.S. Department of Justice announced two separate but connected actions against North Korea ‘s cryptocurrency theft...
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...
The cybercriminals are retargeting law firms that refused to pay its first ransom, with a social engineering con aimed at stealing Microsoft access tokens.
Phishing remained the leading initial access technique, while percentage of ransomware and pre-ransomware cases increased. Finance and public administration tied as the top-targeted industries.
Executive Summary Since the release of our May 2026 report detailing adversarial misuse of artificial intelligence (AI), Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed forward leaning adversaries transition from basic prompting to agentic AI...