India, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Justice Department has announced the disruption of North Korean state-sponsored massive theft of cryptocurrency by using fake video calls to steal people's identities.
Thursday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced the disruption of cloud-based infrastructure used by North Korean hackers in a highly effective social engineering scheme that the FBI is calling "FaceStealer." The scheme, which relies on surreptitiously recorded videos and artificial deepfakes, has resulted in the theft of more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency in the last 18 months and the attempted compromise of individuals involved in the open-source software supply chain.
US authorities seized cloud...