FBI Seizes $560K in Crypto Tied to Hamas Fundraising Network

The FBI seized roughly $560,000 in cryptocurrency and took control of web infrastructure allegedly used by Hamas to solicit donations, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

The funds were traced to the Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, according to the DOJ. Agents seized the domains and servers behind AlQassam.ps, the site that channeled the donations. In practice, that means anyone who sent crypto through the rotating wallet addresses posted there was sending it to a server the FBI now controls. That server also captured information about everyone who reached out.

Three seizure warrants authorized the confiscations. They are dated March 25, June 25, and October 10, 2025, according to court filings, spanning roughly seven months. The operation unfolded in stages rather than as a single takedown. By commandeering the site’s infrastructure instead of shutting it down, agents intercepted incoming donations and gathered information on thousands of people who contacted Hamas about contributing. What happens to those individuals is not specified in the DOJ’s announcement.

The DOJ did not identify which specific cryptocurrencies were seized. Accompanying court filings named Bitcoin, Ethereum, Wrapped Ethereum, Tether, and Tron across 18 Tether-controlled addresses and three Binance accounts allegedly linked to financing a foreign terrorist organization. Whether those Binance accounts are frozen or fully shuttered is not stated.

“Hamas relied on cryptocurrency and online platforms to solicit funds from donors around the world,” said Brett Leatherman, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, in a statement. He said the FBI would continue using its authorities to intercept illicit funds and prevent terrorist organizations from exploiting digital networks to finance their operations.

Federal prosecutors framed the operation in sharper terms. “A message to Hamas: We will stop your fundraising for terror,” said Jeanine Ferris Pirro, U.S. Attorney, 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.”

Court filings allege that an encrypted group chat directed supporters to AlQassam.ps, where rotating wallet addresses solicited donations. Federal prosecutors cast the operation as proof that neither online networks nor cryptocurrency can shield Hamas’s fundraising activities from law enforcement.

The seizures follow a documented trail of prior actions targeting the same financing channel. In March 2025, a U.S. warrant led to the seizure of $201,400 in crypto from addresses that authorities said had received more than $1.5 million since October 2024. Israeli police froze Hamas-linked Binance accounts in 2023. In a separate 2024 review, Binance said it froze about 14% of more than 1,500 wallets that Israel had flagged.

Several details remain undisclosed. The current market value of the seized assets versus their value at the time of seizure is not specified. The DOJ has not said what action, if any, has been taken or is planned against the thousands of individuals whose information agents obtained through the site takeover. The filings reference seizure warrants, but the DOJ has not clarified whether those reflect criminal seizures or civil forfeiture proceedings.