The FBI says the “FaceStealer” scheme uses prerecorded footage and AI deepfakes of trusted contacts to trick crypto workers into installing malware on video calls—as the DOJ also moves to seize $1.2 billion from the Binance hack.
This story was originally published by Decrypt.
DOJ got court approval to seize $1.2B stolen from Binance by North Korea's TraderTraitor & took down the FaceStealer deepfake scam.
Senator Josh Hawley wants a nationwide construction pause until households are protected from rising power bills, even as Congress advances legislation designed to accelerate America's already…
The Justice Department and Europol said Thursday that Operation TorNado has produced 354 arrests and the seizure of more than $234 million in cash and virtual currencies, in what the FBI called the…
North Korean hackers launch memecoins to launder funds stolen in the Binance hack, while xStocks plans to add hundreds of Hong Kong-listed equities in the coming weeks.
Louisiana is the latest state to take on prediction market platforms, joining a legal battle between states and the federal government.
A coalition of DeFi builders led by Uniswap, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Paradigm have filed a court brief supporting the crypto industry’s lawsuit against Illinois’s 0.2% digital asset tax. The…
