US targets network funneling IT earnings to North Korea
WASHINGTON: Federal prosecutors said on Tuesday that they had made two arrests and seized more than 180 computers in an effort to dismantle an alleged North Korean scheme to profit from remote IT work based in the US.
Federal prosecutors have made two arrests and seized over 180 computers in an operation targeting a North Korean scheme to profit from remote IT work based in the US. The Department of Justice conducted searches across more than 40 suspected laptop farms in Texas, generating over $3 million for Pyongyang by deceiving US employers into hiring North Koreans.
Ten of the 14 individuals charged are based in China. North Korea's IT worker schemes raise revenue for illicit purposes, including weapons development that could target the US or its allies. This announcement follows previous law enforcement actions against US-based laptop farms, such as the 2019 sentencing of Zhenxing Wang and Kejia Wang for a multi-year scheme that generated over $5 million in illicit revenue for North Korea.
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