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29 North Korean laptop farms busted by U.S. Department of Justice — illicit IT workers across 16 states reportedly obtained employment with more than 100 U.S. companies to help fund regime
IT workers in North Korea are getting jobs at American companies to help fund the country's weapons programs.
But rather than scuttling its efforts to become a nuclear power, the so-called Hermit Kingdom has turned to alternative sources of income, such as stealing billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency and conducting ransomware operations against organizations in a variety of sectors. You may like The State Department, Treasury Department, and FBI said(PDF) in 2022 that North Korea "has dispatched thousands of highly skilled IT workers around the world" who "in many cases misrepresent themselves as foreign (non-North Korean) or U.S.-based teleworkers, including by using virtual private networks (VPNs), virtual private servers (VPSs), purchased third-country IP addresses, proxy accounts, and falsified or stolen identification documents" in a bid to evade detection for as long as possible. The problem is probably going to get worse before it gets better, too, with Wired reporting that generative AI has made it even more difficult for companies to determine if they're extending a job offer to a legitimate prospect or a North Korean operative.
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