IT workers dispatched and contracted by North Korea to work remotely with companies in the United States used false identities to get the jobs.
The Justice Department said on Wednesday that IT workers dispatched and contracted by North Korea to work remotely with companies in St Louis and elsewhere in the US have been using false identities to get the jobs.
An FBI spokeswoman said that the North Koreans contracted with companies across the US and in some other countries. “I think the post-COVID world has created a lot more opportunity for them because freelancing and remote hiring are a far more natural part of the business than they were in the past,” Hultquist said.
The advisory noted that in recent years, the regime of Kim Jong Un “has placed increased focus on education and training" in IT-related subjects. The Justice Department in recent years has sought to expose and disrupt a broad variety of criminal schemes aimed at bolstering the North Korean regime, including its nuclear weapons program.
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