DOJ charges 14 over a sprawling North Korean remote work scheme

By Greg Otto

AI Summary

The DOJ's Operation Lonestar Roundup charged 14 individuals for running a North Korean IT worker scheme that used stolen identities to infiltrate 70 U.S. employers and funnel approximately $3 million back to Pyongyang. Two arrests were made during a September federal operation targeting over 40 laptop farm locations in Texas. The scheme represents a continued DPRK strategy of using fraudulent remote workers to generate hard currency while potentially exfiltrating sensitive employer data.

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