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#10 The Record threat-intel February 20, 2026 at 17:38 UTC

Ukrainian national gets 5-year sentence for involvement in North Korea IT worker scheme

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Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko was sentenced to 5 years in prison for facilitating a North Korean IT worker scheme that infiltrated 40 American companies. Didenko provided stolen identities and ran laptop farms to help North Korean operatives gain remote employment, generating revenue for the sanctioned regime while accessing sensitive corporate systems.

Read full article → https://therecord.media/north-korea-laptop-farm-uk…

Relevance score: 80.0/100

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