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For years the The North Korean government has determined an emerging source of sanctions by commissioning its citizens with the citizens Secret application for remote tech jobs in the west. A newly unveiled Takedown surgery of the American law enforcement agencies makes it clear how much of the infrastructure that these programs have completed was based in the United States – and how many identities of the Americans were stolen by the North Korean imitators to carry them out.
The Ministry of Justice on Monday announced A comprehensive operation to make the elements of the North Korean Remote-IT worker program based in the USA, including charges against two Americans who were involved in the operations of the FBI. The authorities also searched 29 “laptop farms” in 16 countries, which are supposed to access the PCs to the North Korean employees, and conquered around 200 of these computers as well as 21 web domains and 29 financial accounts that had received sales that the company achieved. The announcement and accusation of the doj also show how the North Koreans not only created fake ID cards in order to work according to the authorities in western technology companies, but supposedly stolen the identity of “more than 80 US persons” in order to imply them in workplaces for more than a hundred US companies and to steer money into the KIM regime.
“It’s huge,” says Michael Barnhart, an investigator who focuses on North Korean hacking and espionage at DTEX, a security company that focuses on insider threats. “Whenever you have a laptop farm like this, this is the soft lower abdomen of these operations. If you close it in so many states, that’s massive.”
Overall, the DOJ is that it identified six Americans that they believe in a program to enable the North Korean Tech Worker Imitator, although only two were named and charged with criminal – Kejia Wang and Zhenxing Wang, both in New Jersey – and only ZhenXing Wang was arrested. Prosecutors accuse the two men to steal the identity of the values of Americans for the North Koreans, and receive laptops that their employers sent to them, a distant access for North Koreans to control these machines from all over the world. Out allegedly deserved. According to the DOJ, the two American men also worked with six Chinese Coconspirators mentioned according to the charges and two Taiwanese nationals.
In order to create the cover identities for the North Korean employees, the two seeds have accessed the personal details of more than 700 Americans for search queries of private records. For the people who spend the North Koreans, they allegedly went far away and used scans of the driver licenses and social security cards of the identity theft of the victims so that the North Koreans can apply for jobs under their names, according to the doj.
The load documents do not show how these personal documents were supposedly preserved. According to the Barnhart von DTEX, the North Korean identity operations operations usually receive the identifying documents of the Americans from dark web cyber criminal forums or data leak pages. In fact, he says that the identities cited by the Doj represented a tiny sample of thousands of US IDs, which he saw in some cases from the North Korean hacking operational infrastructure.