Los AngelesPrerecorded faces of friends let hackers steal $400 million.
Targets are crypto staff and open-source developers, and the US says proceeds fund North Korea’s weapons.
Hackers join calls from hijacked accounts, play a prior victim’s recorded clip, then offer a fake-error link that installs malware.
North Korea denies involvement in the Binance hack, which the US Federal Bureau of Investigation blames on a separate military group.
A judge will decide who owns the $1.2 billion the Justice Department moved to seize.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 40+ reports worldwide
- Deutsche Welle leans critical
- details the FaceStealer method: recorded webcams, replayed clips of known contacts, and staged fake technical errors
- The Record
- credits multi-division DOJ work with halting about half the $6.3B Binance theft, and attributes it to TraderTraitor
Sources: The Record, Deutsche Welle