The American government eliminates the main North Korean operations of “IT workers”

The United States Ministry announced on Monday that it had taken several implementing measures against the operations of realization of North Korea, which Allow IT workers at secret distance in American technological companies To collect funds for the regime’s nuclear weapons program, as well as to steal data and a cryptocurrency.

As part of the MJ’s multi-state effort, the government has announced the arrest and charge National Zhenxing “Danny” Wang, which would have led a fraud program for several years in New Jersey to distort North Korean IT workers, inside American technological companies. According to the indictment, the regime has generated more than $ 5 million in income for the North Korean regime.

Wang is accused of conspiracy in order to commit fraud by wire, money laundering and identity theft.

Federals too accused eight other people Who participated in the program: six Chinese nationals and two Taiwanese citizens, who are accused of conspiracy in order to commit fraud by wire, money laundering, identity theft, hacking and rape the sanctions.

“Thousands of North Korean cyber-agents have been trained and deployed by the regime to blend into the global digital workforce and systematically target American companies,” said Leah B. Foley, American lawyer for the Massachusetts District.

From 2021 to 2024, the co-conspirators would have usurped the identity of more than 80 American people to obtain distant jobs in more than 100 US companies, causing $ 3 million in damages due to legal costs, efforts to repair data violation, and more.

The group would have directed laptop farms inside the United States, which North Korean IT workers could mainly use their proxies to hide their provenance, according to the DOJ. Sometimes they used material devices known as Key-Souris keyboard switches (KVM)which allow a person to control several computers from a single keyboard and a single mouse. The group would also have directed bus companies in the United States to give the impression that North Korean IT workers were affiliated with legitimate local companies and to receive money which would then be transferred abroad, said the DoJ.

The fraudulent regime would also have involved North Korean workers flying sensitive data, such as the source code, companies for which they worked, such as a nameless Californian defense entrepreneur “who develops equipment and technologies supplied by artificial intelligence”.

The DoJ said that the FBI had searched earlier in June 21 in 14 states, which hosted laptop farms used by the North Korean program. The FBI seized 137 laptops following the raids.

The federal government has also said that it had seized at least 21 web areas, 29 financial accounts used to bleach tens of thousands of dollars and more than 70 laptops and remote access devices, including KVMs.

Five North Korean nationals were charged with wire fraud and money laundering after stealing more than $ 900,000 in crypto with two anonymous companies, thanks to their use of false or stolen identities, the DoJ said.