TREE NEWS update: A court order allows the U.S. Department of Justice to lock up $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance and tied to North Korea. The DOJ also said the FBI took down servers behind “FaceStealer,” a video-call hacking scheme linked to more than $400 million in crypto theft.
DOJ Wins Court Order to Seize $1.2B in North Korea-Stolen Binance Crypto
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The scale of the seizure is notable less for the dollar figure than for the precedent: U.S. authorities are now converting on-chain attribution into court-authorized control of funds, not just indictments. The parallel takedown of FaceStealer's infrastructure signals a shift toward disrupting the social-engineering layer that feeds these thefts, which matters for exchanges and users who handle video-call verification. Whether this enforcement tempo produces sustained recoveries — or merely one-off wins — is the open question.
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