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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This can’t be. I was told that Bondi is on TV too much. /sarc
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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.
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For them, it’s cleaner than to send soldiers to the front in Ukraine.
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.
Same here.
Creative...What’s the pay rate for someone from North Korea?
How does HR justify this kind of hiring practice?
Management is all in on outsourcing, clearly. And this is what they deservedly get. Shareholders should be furious.
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.
These stupid outsourcing companies should finally get what they deserve.
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.
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.
We pick our enemies poorly. Chinese, Russians, Persians, and Koreans are on the whole pretty talented.
They probably figured out is they identified as black trans folks they were a guaranteed hire.
Lol.
The sort of pencil-necked geek that the American Left creates!
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.
these are communists, who get a job under false pretenses and just work for a paycheck, for the motherland. its pretty hilarious.
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