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‘This is the mafia’ — How North Korea structures its IT workers like an organized crime syndicate
The North Korean IT workers scheme rakes in $250 million to $600 million per year and billions in crypto, according to UN ...
North Korea’s Laptop Farm Scam: ‘Something We’d Never Seen Before’
Officials uncover how North Korean operatives used stolen identities and remote-controlled tech to infiltrate American ...
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Editorial: South Korea is wide open to China’s cyber infiltration
The second phase of findings from a joint government–private sector task force investigating the recent hacking of SK Telecom ...
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North Korea's army of fake IT workers
North Korean infiltration of tech firms has been a known ... third countries like China before making their way back to North Korea. North Korea has historically targeted US-based tech companies ...
How North Korea infiltrated remote US jobs through a TikTok user in Minnesota
A recent Wall Street Journal investigation highlights the story of Christina Chapman, a Minnesota native and popular TikTok ...
Tech companies have a big remote worker problem: North Korean operatives
Cybersecurity firms say that the intricate scam to amass funding for North Korea’s weapons program is happening “on a scale we haven’t seen before.” ...
North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Remote Jobs—With the Help of Everyday Americans
A LinkedIn message drew a former waitress in Minnesota into a type of intricate scam involving illegal paychecks and stolen ...
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DTEX Exposes North Korea’s Cybercrime Syndicate, Urges Rethink of Threat
May 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DTEX Systems, the trusted leader of insider risk management, has released a groundbreaking report exposing North Korea ... of DPRK’s cyber hierarchy, a covert ...
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How Remote Hiring Practices Could Lead to Infiltration of Your Organization: North Korea Operatives are Exploiting Remote Hiring and What Employers Can Do to Stop It
One of the most alarming threats in this realm is the growing trend of operatives from North Korea – officially ... Add this scenario to your cyber incident response plan and test for it.
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North Korea is remarkably entrenched in global supply chains
Kim Seung-joo, from Korea University’s school of cybersecurity, worries that North Korea’s infiltration of the ... that can be used for future cyber-attacks. Its hackers are already highly ...
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‘This is the mafia’ — How North Korea structures its IT workers like an organized crime syndicate
North Korea’s prosperous cyber-crime operations are similar ... financial fraud, and insider infiltration— flow upward to fund weapons development and sanctions evasion,” states the report ...