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North Korean IT workers infiltrated Fortune 500 companies in massive fraud scheme
Fox News ^ | 6/30/25 | Greg Wehner

Posted on 07/01/2025 12:53:03 AM PDT by Libloather

Federal authorities have unraveled several schemes by the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) that were used to fund its regime through remote information technology (IT) work for U.S. companies, resulting in two indictments, tech and financial seizures and an arrest.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday that North Korean actors were helped by individuals in the U.S., China, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan to obtain employment with over 100 U.S. companies, including Fortune 500 companies.

In one scheme, U.S.-based individuals created front companies and fraudulent websites to promote the legitimacy of remote workers, while hosting laptop farms where remote North Korean IT workers could remotely access company-provided laptop computers.

In another scheme, IT workers in North Korea used false identities to gain employment with a blockchain research and development company in Atlanta, Georgia, and steal virtual currency worth over $900,000.

Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg of the DOJ’s National Security Division said the schemes target and steal from U.S. companies and are designed to evade sanctions while funding illicit programs, including weapons programs, in North Korea.

"North Korea remains intent on funding its weapons programs by defrauding U.S. companies and exploiting American victims of identity theft, but the FBI is equally intent on disrupting this massive campaign and bringing its perpetrators to justice," Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI Counterintelligence Division said. "North Korean IT workers posing as U.S. citizens fraudulently obtained employment with American businesses so they could funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to North Korea’s authoritarian regime."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: fraud; it; korea; scheme

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Was Brandon sleeping the whole time? Stupid question...
1 posted on 07/01/2025 12:53:03 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

This can’t be. I was told that Bondi is on TV too much. /sarc


2 posted on 07/01/2025 1:01:52 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg of the DOJ’s National Security Division said the schemes target and steal from U.S. companies and are designed to evade sanctions while funding illicit programs, including weapons programs, in North Korea.


Federal authorities have unraveled several schemes by the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) that were used to fund its regime through remote information technology (IT) work for U.S. companies, resulting in two indictments, tech and financial seizures and an arrest.

<><>North Korean actors were helped by individuals in the U.S., China, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan to obtain employment with over 100 U.S. companies, including Fortune 500 companies.

<><>In one scheme, U.S.-based individuals created front companies and fraudulent websites to promote the legitimacy of remote workers, while hosting laptop farms where remote North Korean IT workers could remotely access company-provided laptop computers.

<><>In another scheme, IT workers in North Korea used false identities to gain employment with a blockchain research and development company in Atlanta, Georgia, and steal virtual currency worth over $900,000.


3 posted on 07/01/2025 2:02:45 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: Libloather

For them, it’s cleaner than to send soldiers to the front in Ukraine.


4 posted on 07/01/2025 2:39:23 AM PDT by CandyFloss
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I would like to find out more details about the front companies and fraud web sites. For some of us out-of-work tech people, it would be great if we could use the same techniques to offer bona fide services, by long-time USA citizens, to those same companies who hired the gooks.


5 posted on 07/01/2025 3:51:08 AM PDT by asinclair (Indict DNC for RICO?)
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Same here.


6 posted on 07/01/2025 4:32:50 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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Creative...What’s the pay rate for someone from North Korea?

How does HR justify this kind of hiring practice?


7 posted on 07/01/2025 5:08:37 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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Management is all in on outsourcing, clearly. And this is what they deservedly get. Shareholders should be furious.


8 posted on 07/01/2025 5:31:53 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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US management will risk all of its trade secrets and exposure of it business negotiations rather than pay an American $1/hr more.

They should be sued into oblivion for failure to perform their fiduciary duties and illegal outsourcing of labor.

But of course we all know nothing will happen. Join the C-Suite of the Fortune 500 and you're a made man.

9 posted on 07/01/2025 5:35:10 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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These stupid outsourcing companies should finally get what they deserve.


10 posted on 07/01/2025 5:38:16 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ptsal

Create a fictitious company that claims it has all the Tech knowledge required for a project. Management wants to look good so they hire them without verification. I get so peeved at our hiring practices because we won’t verify anything, especially dealing with foreigners. They lie about everything. We actually made an offer to a guy who wasn’t legal to work in the country. He was probably in India.


11 posted on 07/01/2025 5:39:39 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: pierrem15

What I hate is when I need customer support and I have to press “1” for English to get connected to someone who barely speaks it.


12 posted on 07/01/2025 5:42:23 AM PDT by BipolarBob (If people make you sick, maybe you should try cooking them longer.)
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To: ptsal

We pick our enemies poorly. Chinese, Russians, Persians, and Koreans are on the whole pretty talented.


13 posted on 07/01/2025 5:47:51 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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They probably figured out is they identified as black trans folks they were a guaranteed hire.

Lol.


14 posted on 07/01/2025 5:51:28 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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Presently a very bad American enemy is prosecuting a war against the American Republic. His name is Kieth Wilson and he is the mayor of Portland Oregon


15 posted on 07/01/2025 5:56:42 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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Creative...What’s the pay rate for someone from North Korea?

How does HR justify this kind of hiring practice?


I do believe you're on a direct track to answer that question with the result of your first question.
16 posted on 07/01/2025 6:02:52 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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The sort of pencil-necked geek that the American Left creates!


17 posted on 07/01/2025 6:10:23 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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What I hate is when I need customer support and I have to press “1” for English to get connected to someone who barely speaks it.

Yes that's unbelievable irritating. The only foreign call centers who seem to speak English well are the Filipino ones.

Once I called Chase about something and got bounced around a few call centers and wound up speaking to some young Filipina about it. Then I heard a cock crow really loudly. I figured she was home and had the TV on. Then I heard it again, so I asked her if she was in some village in the Philippines at dawn. She laughed and said yes.

She was able to help, but it doesn't inspire confidence that Chase was sending my financial data over some dodgy internet connection to a village in the Philippines.

18 posted on 07/01/2025 7:08:49 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Libloather

these are communists, who get a job under false pretenses and just work for a paycheck, for the motherland. its pretty hilarious.


19 posted on 07/01/2025 7:59:40 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation

Hundreds of laptops, bank accounts linked to North Korean fake IT workers scheme seized in major crackdown

christina chapman is going to prison, probably for a long time:
Arizona woman charged in North Korean IT worker scheme that raised millions
20 posted on 07/01/2025 8:05:57 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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