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🧨 U.S. slams sanctions on North Korea’s fake job ring funding missile programs
In a powerful move to defend national security, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed tough sanctions on ...
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North Korean IT workers hit with US sanctions for propping up Kim regime
Korea Songkwang Trading General Corporation received designation under Executive Order 13810 as North Korean persons. Korea Saenal Trading Corporation also faces sanctions for engaging in commercial ...
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U.S. Sanctions North Korean Andariel Hacker Behind Fraudulent IT Worker Scheme
The IT worker scheme, also tracked as Nickel Tapestry, Wagemole, and UNC5267, involves North Korean actors using a mix of ...
GMX halts trading, token minting following $40M exploit
The GMX V1 cryptocurrency exchange was hacked by malicious actors on Wednesday, draining $40 million from the platform's GLP ...
US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader
The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data ...
U.S. sanctions North Korean member of Kim Jong Un's spy agency
Song Kum Hyok is accused of masterminding a scheme in which North Korean cyber operatives posed as U.S. remote IT workers for ...
US targets North Korean fake IT worker scheme with China and Russia links
The ‘workers’ were given false American identities so they could hold remote jobs with US firms and generate money for Kim ...
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US Treasury Department sanctions individuals and entities over illegal IT worker scheme
Russians and North Koreans contributed to the scheme to provide illegal remote IT workers to US companies to fund the North ...
Sanctioning Malicious North Korean Cyber Actors
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea deploys IT workers who obfuscate their identities, often through identity theft of U.S. persons, to fraudulently obtain employment at unwitting foreign firms.
Fake IT workers fund Kim Jong Un’s missile program, says U.S. Treasury
U.S. sanctions a ring of IT workers linked to North Korea, accused of infiltrating crypto firms to fund the missile program.
US slaps sanctions on firms linked to North Korea's fake-tech-worker scheme
Thousands of North Korean workers have been posing as nationals from other countries to infiltrate companies in the US and ...