Amazon has seen an increase in North Korean IT workers attempting to get jobs at the tech giant, schemes motivated by ...

The scheme enabled overseas DPRK operatives to access sensitive government systems through fraudulent IT jobs.

Crypto exchange Kraken recently uncovered a sophisticated attempt by a North Korean hacker to infiltrate its operations through a seemingly innocuous job application. The incident, detailed by Kraken ...

A man in Maryland has been sentenced to a 15-month prison sentence and three years of supervised release after a revelation ...

In recent years, thousands of North Korean IT workers have used stolen and made-up US identities to pose as Western developers, engineers, and tech consultants to funnel hundreds of millions of ...

A Maryland fraud case reveals a deeper shift in North Korea’s evolving cyber playbook and global crypto ambitions.

Google threat intelligence says North Korea’s fake workers have also increased extortion attempts as they’re under pressure to maintain money streams amid a US crackdown. Fraudulent tech workers with ...

A North Korean IT worker attempted to get a job at Kraken. The hiring team at Kraken, a U.S.-based crypto exchange, noticed immediately that something was off about “Steven Smith,” a would-be IT ...

This week, federal prosecutors charged four North Korean nationals with scheming to get hired by a U.S. company as remote workers and then steal nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency. It’s a relatively ...

The U.S. Navy's special forces infiltrated North Korean territorial waters in 2019, during the first administration of President Donald Trump, to carry out a surveillance operation targeting North ...