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North Korean operative reveals the inner workings of the IT scam infiltrating the Fortune 500—‘They had no idea that we were from North Korea’
For years, Kim Ji-min served as an IT worker inside a vast global scheme devised by North Korea’s authoritarian leadership…
Michael Barnhart is an investigator at DTEX Systems focused on North Korea. They showed up on time, crushed deadlines, asked…
North Korean operatives and American accomplices accused in massive fraud that infiltrated the Fortune 500 and stole millions
The Justice Department on Monday announced a significant crackdown on the North Korean IT workers fraud scheme, with two new…
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…












