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North Korean agents pretending to be IT guys have funneled up to $1 billion into Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program
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North Korean agents pretending to be IT guys have funneled up to $1 billion into Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program
By Amanda GerutOctober 4, 2025
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attending a meeting with a committee of the Workers' Party of Korea about the test of a hydrogen bomb, at an unknown location. North Korea said it detonated a hydrogen bomb designed for a long-range missile on September 3 and called its sixth and most powerful nuclear test a "perfect success", sparking world condemnation and promises of tougher US sanctions.
Finance
North Korean IT worker infiltrations exploded 220% over the past 12 months, with gen AI weaponized at every stage of the hiring process
By Amanda GerutAugust 4, 2025
U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro at a podium with President Donald Trump
Finance
Arizona woman in North Korean IT workers scheme sentenced to 8.5 years for helping to trick Fortune 500 companies out of millions
By Amanda GerutJuly 24, 2025
A man sitting at a desk with multiple screens showing green letters.
Finance
An American who helped North Korean IT workers rake in $17.1 million faces sentencing in scheme that tricked hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
By Amanda GerutJuly 19, 2025
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un walks to a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea.
Finance
North Korean operative reveals the inner workings of the IT scam infiltrating the Fortune 500—‘They had no idea that we were from North Korea’
By Amanda GerutJuly 2, 2025
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un greeting children in 2024.
Tech
‘This is the mafia’ — How North Korea structures its IT workers like an organized crime syndicate
By Amanda GerutMay 18, 2025
Kim Jong Un, North Korea's leader, reacts while watching an honor guard before his departure to North Korea at the railway station in Vladivostok, Russia, on Friday, April 26, 2019
Tech
The North Korean IT worker scheme infiltrated an American election campaign website
By Amanda GerutMay 12, 2025
A person gets a manicure
Tech
Nail salon employee pleads guilty after holding 13 remote IT jobs worked by developers in China
By Amanda GerutApril 27, 2025
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un during a press conference, June 19, 2024, in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Tech
Fake LinkedIn profiles, Webex, and Fiverr: Inside the North Korean IT worker scheme roiling the Fortune 500
By Amanda GerutApril 16, 2025
Kim Jong-Un in 2018.
Tech
North Korean IT workers are spamming tech firms with fake résumés. One founder says he came up with ‘a foolproof way’ of weeding them out
By Amanda GerutApril 10, 2025
Photo of Kim Jong Un
Tech
Thousands of North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500—and they keep getting hired for more jobs
By Amanda GerutApril 7, 2025
Merrick Garland
Tech
Thousands of North Koreans stole Americans’ identities and took remote-work tech jobs at Fortune 500 companies, DOJ says
By Eric Tucker and The Associated PressMay 16, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) talks with North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un during their meeting on April 25, 2019 in Vladivostok, Russia
Europe
Shunned by the West, Vladimir Putin turns to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as an ally
By Tristan BoveAugust 15, 2022
North Korean fraudsters suspected of copying people’s LinkedIn and Indeed profiles in a bid to land jobs at U.S. crypto firms
Tech
North Korean fraudsters suspected of copying people’s LinkedIn and Indeed profiles in a bid to land jobs at U.S. crypto firms
By Chloe TaylorAugust 1, 2022
Kim Jong-un likely to let his missiles do the talking as Biden enters the White House
Politics
Kim Jong-un likely to let his missiles do the talking as Biden enters the White House
By Jon Herskovitz and BloombergNovember 29, 2020
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