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Justice Department moves to confiscate $7.7 million of allegedly stolen crypto as North Korean IT workers infiltrate U.S. companies
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A smuggled North Korean smartphone reveals how the regime censors information, including screenshotting users activities every five minutes
A smartphone smuggled out of North Korea sheds light on how the regime tightly censors content. Measures include automatically replacing…
‘Anthony from Staten Island’ said he developed a chat tool for Meta. His entire identity was fake.
A provider of identity verification and fraud tools was recently targeted by what appear to be multiple North Korean IT…
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‘This is the mafia’ — How North Korea structures its IT workers like an organized crime syndicate
The crime syndicate La Cosa Nostra in the U.S. is built around “Five Families” that famously war with each other…
An extensive consortium of Chinese businesses—broader than previously believed—could be knowingly or unknowingly propping up a vast global scheme in…
A North Korean agent applied for a job at a popular crypto firm: They tripped him up with a simple question about Halloween
The hiring team at Kraken, a U.S-based crypto exchange, noticed immediately that something was off about “Steven Smith,” a would-be…
Fake LinkedIn profiles, Webex, and Fiverr: Inside the North Korean IT worker scheme roiling the Fortune 500
The message Aidan Raney sent to a Fiverr profile he learned was being manned 24/7 by North Korean engineers looking…
South Korea’s arms industry, once seen as backward for focusing on land weapons, is booming post-Ukraine
At the outskirts of a South Korean industrial city, workers at a sprawling weapons factory were conducting final-stage testing for…
Biden lets Ukraine fire long-range US missiles inside Russia after North Korea sends troops to aid Putin
US President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use long-range American missiles against military targets inside Russia, a US official…












