US Cracks Down on North Korean Cyberfraud and Cryptocurrency Theft
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The U.S. Justice Department has seized hundreds of accounts, laptops, and websites linked to a North Korean scheme where operatives posed as remote IT workers to infiltrate U.S. companies, steal intellectual property, and fund North Korea's weapons programs, with around 100 companies affected and multiple arrests made.
- Hundreds of laptops, bank accounts linked to North Korean fake IT workers scheme seized in major crackdown Politico
- FBI arrests one man, searches laptops in 16 states in crackdown on North Korean tech-worker scheme CNN
- North Korean IT workers infiltrated Fortune 500 companies in massive fraud scheme Fox News
- North Korean agents steal nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency from Buckhead business: FBI WSB-TV
- US Charges North Koreans in Plot to Defraud More Than 100 Firms Bloomberg.com
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