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Nashville man arrested for running “laptop farm” to get jobs for North Koreans
Laptop farm gave the impression North Korean nationals were working from the US.
HOW TO LAND A SIX-FIGURE SALARY — Federal authorities have arrested a Nashville man on charges he hosted laptops at his residences in a scheme to deceive US companies into hiring foreign remote IT workers who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in income to fund North Korea’s weapons program. The arrest comes two weeks after security-training company KnowBe4 said it unknowingly hired a North Korean national using a fake identity to appear as someone eligible to fill a position for a software engineer for an internal IT AI team. The FBI and Departments of State and Treasury issued a May 2022 advisory alerting the international community, private sector, and public of a campaign underway to land North Korean nationals IT jobs in violation of many countries’ laws.
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