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The U.S. Department of Justice this week announced the seizure of more than $550,000 in cryptocurrency donations and the disruption of recruitment websites connected to the designated foreign terrorist organization Hamas.
Through court-authorized seizures, the FBI confiscated approximately $560,000 in digital currency and took control of domains and servers that Hamas was allegedly using to raise funds and recruit supporters, according to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.
“A message to Hamas: We will stop your fundraising for terror,” Pirro said in a statement. “Your networks are not secure, your crypto is vulnerable, and we will not stop until your ability to wage war is defeated.”
In a video posted on X, Pirro characterized the operation as a “massive blow against foreign terrorism” designed to disrupt Hamas’ online recruitment pipeline.
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced the seizure of approximately $560,000 in cryptocurrency allegedly intended to support Hamas and warned the terrorist organization that its networks are “not secure.” (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
“By seizing their servers and their domains, we were able to directly intercept money that was going to be used by the military wing of Hamas, the Al Qassam Brigade,” she said.
“And to add a little more interest to this, we also now have the names and identities of thousands of individuals who tried to give money to Hamas that we were able to intercept,” she continued.
According to federal court documents, investigators identified a group chat claiming ties to Hamas on an encrypted communications platform. The chat was directing supporters of the terrorist organization to a fundraising website and a rotating set of cryptocurrency donation addresses.
Prosecutors said investigators leveraged information from multiple human sources on three separate occasions — March 25, June 25, and Oct. 10, 2025 — to identify, trace, and seize approximately $560,000 in cryptocurrency intended to support Hamas’ Al Qassam Brigades.
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Federal investigators identified, traced and seized approximately $560,000 in cryptocurrency allegedly intended to support Hamas’ Al Qassam Brigades, prosecutors said. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The Justice Department confirmed that the FBI also relied on human sources to identify and seize the domains and servers operated by the group. Once the FBI gained control of the online infrastructure, agents were able to intercept cryptocurrency donations allegedly intended for Hamas, according to the DOJ.
Throughout the course of the investigation, the FBI also obtained information on thousands of individuals who allegedly contacted Hamas online in an effort to donate to the terrorist organization.
The DOJ stated that the information gathered will be utilized in the FBI’s ongoing counterterrorism operations.
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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro described the operation targeting Hamas-linked fundraising and recruitment infrastructure as a “massive blow against foreign terrorism.” (Fox News / Fox News)
“These seizures deprive Hamas of resources it relies on to recruit and radicalize individuals online and finance barbaric attacks like the one on October 7, 2023,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said.
“We will continue to tighten the vise on Hamas’s capacity for terror by infiltrating its online networks, confiscating its cryptocurrency, and shutting down its websites,” he added.