The Justice Department said over 100 US firms were unknowingly paying salaries to North Korea. It said the scheme involved "laptop farms" of work computers for US firms plugged into hard drives.

The Justice Department announced criminal charges Monday in a scheme by North Korea to fund its weapons program through the salaries of remote information technology workers employed unwittingly ...

Even at Pindrop, a security startup generating more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue, they’re finding that 16.8% of job applicants are fake—and the number is growing fast.

Comprising hundreds of buildings peppered across about 10 square miles of low-lying hills, the Yongbyon nuclear complex produces North Korea’s plutonium, along with highly enriched uranium and ...

The scheme involves thousands of workers who, armed with stolen or fake identifies of U.S. citizens, are dispatched by the North Korean government to find work as remote IT employees at American ...

North Korean infiltration of tech firms has been a known issue for years, but "the scam is more widespread than previously understood". Tech leaders are opening up about their encounters with it ...

North Korea has refused to negotiate until the United States lifts financial restrictions imposed on a Macau-based bank and several North Korean companies for alleged counterfeiting, money laundering ...

The US Department of Justice has moved to seize $7.74 million in crypto allegedly earned by North Korean IT workers using fake identities and working at blockchain firms as remote contractors.

Two major cases were brought in federal courts in Georgia and Massachusetts, the FBI and DOJ said, involving North Korean IT workers using stolen or fake U.S. identities to secure employment ...

In a novel social engineering campaign, North Korea’s BlueNoroff is tricking company executives into downloading fake Zoom extensions that install a custom-built Mac malware suite.