Oleksandr Didenko ran laptop farms and provided forged or stolen identities to North Korean operatives who gained remote employment at 40 U.S. businesses.

Federal prosecutors secured five guilty pleas from people who supported overseas remote IT workers, and seized $15 million in stolen cryptocurrency tied to the North Korean regime.

The Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes to fund North Korean…

Okta Threat Intelligence uncovered a large-scale and sustained operation, reflecting the North Korean regime’s pursuit of any opportunity that allows for remote employment.

Experts say companies often struggle to manage the aftermath when they discover an employee’s true identity is not what it seemed.

As the sanctions-evading scheme has grown, so too has the U.S. government’s response.

Threat hunters saw North Korean operatives almost daily, reflecting a 220% year-over-year increase in activity, CrowdStrike said in a new report.

Unit 42 said social engineering — the method of choice for groups as diverse as Scattered Spider and North Korean tech workers — was the top initial…

The announcement comes as an Arizona woman was sentenced to more than eight years in jail for her role in running a laptop farm.

A North Korean man was the focus of Tuesday’s announcement, which also included a Russian man, his companies and North Korean firms.