hacker-news · Crawled Nov 14, 2026

FBI Says North Korean Hackers Stole Over $400 Million in Crypto Using Deepfake Video Calls

2 IoCs 1 Actors 2 Malware
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AI Summary

The FBI has attributed a social engineering campaign named FaceStealer to North Korea-linked threat actors, specifically the BlueNoroff group, which has stolen over $400 million in cryptocurrency over the past 18 months. The campaign uses deepfake video calls and surreptitiously recorded videos to impersonate trusted contacts during fake Zoom or Teams meetings, tricking high-value targets—primarily cryptocurrency and Web3 industry professionals—into clicking malicious links or running scripts that install malware. The attack chain leverages compromised Telegram accounts to propagate, using typosquatted domains and phishing kits to deliver payloads, ultimately enabling credential theft, supply chain compromises, and lateral movement. A related but distinct campaign, Contagious Interview, uses fake job interviews and weaponized code repositories to deploy malware such as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret.

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Extracted Entities 3 found

Threat Actor Lazarus Group → Malware Beavertail → Malware InvisibleFerret →

Indicators of Compromise 2 extracted

Type Value Detail
Domain uu01webzoom[.]us Details →
Domain teams[.]livemeet[.]us Details →

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs 77 techniques

T1001 Data Obfuscation · Command And Control T1003 OS Credential Dumping · Credential Access T1018 Remote System Discovery · Discovery T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol · Lateral Movement T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares · Lateral Movement T1021.004 SSH · Lateral Movement T1021.006 Windows Remote Management · Lateral Movement T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information · Defense Evasion T1029 Scheduled Transfer · Exfiltration T1036.005 Match Legitimate Name or Location · Defense Evasion T1040 Network Sniffing · Credential Access T1053.005 Scheduled Task · Execution T1053.008 T1053.008 T1055 Process Injection · Defense Evasion T1057 Process Discovery · Discovery T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter · Execution T1059.001 PowerShell · Execution T1059.003 Windows Command Shell · Execution T1059.004 Unix Shell · Execution T1059.005 Visual Basic · Execution T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation · Privilege Escalation T1070.001 Clear Windows Event Logs · Defense Evasion T1070.004 File Deletion · Defense Evasion T1070.006 Timestomp · Defense Evasion T1071.001 Web Protocols · Command And Control T1071.004 DNS · Command And Control T1078 Valid Accounts · Defense Evasion T1082 System Information Discovery · Discovery T1083 File and Directory Discovery · Discovery T1085 T1085 T1087 Account Discovery · Discovery T1090 Proxy · Command And Control T1098 Account Manipulation · Persistence T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer · Command And Control T1129 Shared Modules · Execution T1133 External Remote Services · Persistence T1134 Access Token Manipulation · Defense Evasion T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application · Initial Access T1195.001 Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools · Initial Access T1195.002 Compromise Software Supply Chain · Initial Access T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution · Execution T1204.002 Malicious File · Execution T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services · Lateral Movement T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution · Defense Evasion T1218.011 Rundll32 · Defense Evasion T1480 Execution Guardrails · Defense Evasion T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification · Defense Evasion T1484.001 Group Policy Modification · Defense Evasion T1485 Data Destruction · Impact T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact · Impact T1495 Firmware Corruption · Impact T1496 Resource Hijacking · Impact T1534 Internal Spearphishing · Lateral Movement T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism · Privilege Escalation T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle · Credential Access T1558 Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets · Credential Access T1566 Phishing · Initial Access T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment · Initial Access T1566.002 Spearphishing Link · Initial Access T1573.001 Symmetric Cryptography · Command And Control T1583 Acquire Infrastructure · Resource Development T1610 Deploy Container · Defense Evasion T1650 Acquire Access · Resource Development T1005 Data from Local System · Collection T1021.003 Distributed Component Object Model · Lateral Movement T1056.001 Keylogging · Collection T1056.002 GUI Input Capture · Collection T1059.007 JavaScript · Execution T1071 Application Layer Protocol · Command And Control T1071.003 Mail Protocols · Command And Control T1113 Screen Capture · Collection T1114 Email Collection · Collection T1123 Audio Capture · Collection T1482 Domain Trust Discovery · Discovery T1490 Inhibit System Recovery · Impact T1555 Credentials from Password Stores · Credential Access T1573 Encrypted Channel · Command And Control