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Feds Uncover Remote Tech Workers Scheme to Benefit North Korea

  • On Monday, authorities revealed the indictment of nine individuals connected to a plot that placed North Korean IT workers within over 100 U.S. companies to steal information and generate income for North Korea.
  • This multi-year operation was carried out to evade international restrictions and involved the use of stolen U.S. identities, fraudulent companies, and laptop farms to obscure the true origin of North Korean IT workers.
  • Law enforcement seized 137 laptops, 21 fraudulent web domains, 29 financial accounts, and recovered over 70 devices during searches in New York, New Jersey, and California in October 2024.
  • U.S. Attorney Leah Foley emphasized that operatives linked to North Korea represent a serious and urgent danger, with the suspects involved in generating over $5 million in revenue and inflicting $3 million in losses on targeted companies.
  • The indictments highlight ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's illicit revenue networks and emphasize continued multiagency collaboration targeting cyber-enabled schemes that threaten U.S. national security.
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US shuts down a string of North Korean IT worker scams

: Resulting in two indictments, one arrest, and 137 laptops seized

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