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US wants $7.7M in crypto laundered in North Korea IT worker plot
US authorities have moved to seize $7.7 million in crypto, frozen initially in April 2023 as part of a case involving alleged ...
North Korea's army of fake IT workers
Using AI and stolen information to craft false identities, they are becoming an 'increasing menace' to top tech companies in ...
Justice Department moves to confiscate $7.7 million of allegedly stolen crypto as North Korean IT workers infiltrate U.S. companies
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) wants to confiscate $7.7 million worth of cryptocurrency seized in connection with an ...
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North Korea's army of fake IT workers
A secretive group of North Koreans have been securing IT jobs across the US and UK ... its weapons programme," said Politico. North Korean infiltration of tech firms has been a known issue ...
Tech companies have a big remote worker problem: North Korean operatives
Cybersecurity firms say that the intricate scam to amass funding for North Korea’s weapons program is happening “on a scale we haven’t seen before.” ...
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4 Ways to Stop Fake Applicants—and Remote Employees—In This North Korean Job Scam
That threat of impostors from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ... infiltration.” Google’s Threat Intelligence Group has also documented the increasing number of North Korean job ...
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‘This is the mafia’ — How North Korea structures its IT workers like an organized crime syndicate
A detailed report on North Korea’s cyber-crime operations has ... financial fraud, and insider infiltration— flow upward to fund weapons development and sanctions evasion,” states the ...
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Tech Talk: FBI warns U.S. of data extortion, espionage by fake North Korean IT workers
According to the FBI, North Korean operatives, using stolen or fake identities to obtain IT jobs at U.S. companies ... this type of infiltration by North Korean spies to conduct illegal activity ...