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US Government Takes Down Major North Korean 'Remote IT Workers' Operation
Tuesday July 1, 2025. 03:00 PM , from Slashdot
![]() From 2021 until 2024, the co-conspirators allegedly impersonated more than 80 U.S. individuals to get remote jobs at more than 100 American companies, causing $3 million in damages due to legal fees, data breach remediation efforts, and more. The group is said to have run laptop farms inside the United States, which the North Korean IT workers could essentially use as proxies to hide their provenance, according to the DOJ. At times, they used hardware devices known as keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switches, which allow one person to control multiple computers from a single keyboard and mouse. The group allegedly also ran shell companies inside the U.S. to make it seem like the North Korean IT workers were affiliated with legitimate local companies, and to receive money that would then be transferred abroad, the DOJ said. The fraudulent scheme allegedly also involved the North Korean workers stealing sensitive data, such as source code, from the companies they were working for, such as from an unnamed California-based defense contractor 'that develops artificial intelligence-powered equipment and technologies.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/30/2236218/us-government-takes-down-major-north-korean-remote-i...
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