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Summary
A U.S. federal court has indicted 14 North Koreans for allegedly running a scheme where thousands of North Korean IT workers used stolen identities to secure remote jobs with U.S. companies, generating $88 million over six years for Pyongyang’s weapons programs.
Workers, dubbed “IT Warriors,” were employed by North Korean-controlled firms in China and Russia and also extorted U.S. firms by stealing sensitive data.
The suspects remain in North Korea, but the U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information.
Officials warn this is part of a broader, ongoing operation.
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running a scheme where thousands of North Korean IT workers used stolen identities to secure remote jobs with U.S. companies, generating $88 million over six years for Pyongyang’s weapons programs.
So, their “scheme” was getting a job?
This blog post explains the situation well. KnowBe4 is an IT security company that briefly hired someone in North Korea.
https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us
Meanwhile, I can’t even get to the interview stage…
Are they going after the Americans that aided and abetted this?
Dey took our jorbs!!
Pretty sneaky.
In other words it’s time to crack down on working from home and all other remote work
