Americans Sentenced for Running 'Laptop Farms' for North Korea
The scheme affected almost 70 U.S. companies and generated $1.2 million for the North Korean regime, prosecutors said.
- Two U.S. nationals, Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince, were sentenced to 18 months in prison Wednesday for operating 'laptop farms' that facilitated North Korea's remote IT worker scheme.
- Knoot and Prince received company-issued laptops at their residences and installed remote desktop software enabling North Korean IT workers to masquerade as legitimate U.S.-based employees.
- The pair's schemes impacted almost 70 U.S. companies and generated a combined $1.2 million in revenue for the North Korean regime, according to the Justice Department.
- Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg said these sentences hold accountable Americans who enabled North Korea's illicit efforts to infiltrate U.S. networks and profit from U.S. companies.
- Federal authorities have warned of North Korean IT workers infiltrating U.S. firms since at least 2023, with the scheme penetrating hundreds of Fortune 500 companies.
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ussanews.comAmerican Nationals Sentenced for Running Illicit ‘Laptop Farm’ Operations for North Korea
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday the sentencing of two U.S. nationals in separate cases for their roles in facilitating a fraudulent remote information technology (IT) worker scheme that generated more than $1 million in revenue for North Korea. Matthew Isaac Knoot from Nashville and Erick Ntekereze Prince from New York “received and hosted laptop computers at their residences that victim U.S. companies shipped to IT worker…
American duo sentenced for hosting laptop farms for North Korean IT workers
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison for running laptop farms that facilitated North Korea’s expansive remote IT workers scheme, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Matthew Issac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince both received and hosted laptops at their residences to dupe U.S. companies into thinking remote IT workers they hired were located in the country. The pair’s separate schemes impacted almost 70 U.S. companies and …
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