US DOJ Freezes $2.7B of Binance Stolen Funds

Cointime update: The U.S. Department of Justice said it has frozen or preserved about $2.7 billion of the more than $6 billion stolen from Binance, working with two major stablecoin issuers, Bloomberg reported on Nov. 13. The same day, the FBI’s cyber division warned that North Korean hackers are using a social-engineering tactic called FaceStealer, impersonating video-conferencing platforms to steal crypto assets and attack software supply chains.