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CrowdStrike 2024 report exposes North Korea’s covert workforce in U.S. tech firms


In April 2024, CrowdStrike Services responded to the first of several incidents in which North Korea's FAMOUS CHOLLIMA malicious insiders targeted U.S. firms

North Korean nation-state attackers were successfully posing as job applicants and have placed more than 100 of their covert team members in primarily U.S.-based aerospace, defense, retail and technology companies. CrowdStrike’s2024 Threat Hunting Report exposes how North Korea-Nexus adversary FAMOUS CHOLLIMA is leveraging falsified and stolen identity documents, enabling malicious nation-state attackers to gain employment as remote I.T. The second indictment was delivered on Aug. 8 to a man in Nashville, Tennessee, for running a laptop farm that enabled members of FAMOUS CHOLLIMA to work undetected for months, earning salaries paid directly into North Korea’s weapons program.

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