The DOJ has indicted five individuals, including two North Koreans and two American citizens, for a scheme enabling North Korea to secure remote IT jobs with US firms from 2018. These operations allowed North Korean operatives to generate over $860,000, laundered through a Chinese bank account. The American suspects ran a laptop farm to mask their affiliations with North Korea, deceiving businesses into hiring them. The DOJ emphasized its resolve to combat such cyber-enabled frauds that contribute to North Korea's funding of weapons programs while aiding US companies to prevent similar scams in the future.
The Department of Justice remains committed to disrupting North Korea's cyber-enabled sanctions-evading schemes, which seek to trick US companies into funding the North Korean regime's priorities.
Our commitment includes the vigorous pursuit of both the North Korean actors and those providing them with material support.
The two Americans operated a laptop farm from Ashtor's home in the state of North Carolina, from where they hosted victim-company-supplied laptops.
According to the US government, North Korea has dispatched thousands of skilled IT workers to live abroad - mainly in China and Russia.
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