US moves to seize $1.2 billion stolen from Binance and disrupts North Korea's FaceStealer video call scheme
The US Justice Department said on November 12, 2026, that it had obtained court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Binance in the October 29 theft it attributes to North Korea. The department also seized cloud infrastructure used in FaceStealer, a North Korean scheme of fake video calls that the FBI says has stolen more than $400 million in 18 months.