For years, the North Korean government has found a prosperous source of sanctions revenue through the tasks of its citizens with Progress secretly for remote technical jobs in the West. The newly unveiled removal process by the implementation of the American law explains how much the infrastructure used to withdraw these plans in the United States – and the number of Americans ’identities stolen by North Korea’s impersonators to implement them.
On Monday, the Ministry of Justice Declare A comprehensive process to take strict action on the United States-based elements in the North Korea IT plan, including the indictment regulations against two Americans who the government says are involved in operations-one of which was arrested by the FBI. The authorities have also searched 29 “laptops farms” in 16 states claiming to be used to receive and host computers that North Korean workers reach remotely, and seized about 200 of these computers in addition to 21 fields on the Internet and 29 financial accounts that received the revenues achieved by the process. The Declaration of the Ministry of Justice and accusations also reveals how only North Koreans created fake identity cards to throw themselves to Western technology companies, according to the authorities, but they stole the identities of “more than 80 American people” to impersonate them in jobs in more than a hundred American companies and funded funds to Kim.
“It is huge,” said Michael Barnhart, an investigator who focuses on piracy and spying in North Korea in DTEX, a security company that focuses on internal threats. “Whenever you have such a laptop plant, this is the soft shell of these operations. Close it across many states, this is enormous.”
In total, the Ministry of Justice says it has been identified by six Americans who believe that it is involved in a plan to enable the mossor of technology workers in North Korea, although only two were named and they were charged with criminal charges – Kegia Wang and Chinxing Wang, both of which are based in New Jersey – were not arrested only Zhenxing. Prosecutors are accused of the two men of helping to steal the identities of dozens of Americans to North Koreans, receiving the laptops that they sent to them by their employers, preparing remote access to North Koreans to control these machines from all over the world, and create a coastal validity account allowed in the coastal validity. They claimed that they got. The Ministry of Justice says that the two American men also worked with six conspirators called the Chinese, according to shipping documents, as well as two Taiwanese citizens.
To create cover identities for North Korea workers, the two public prosecutors say that two of the two challenges have reached personal details of more than 700 Americans in searching for private records. But for individuals who impersonated the North Koreans, he claimed that they went further, using “drivers” licenses of the victims of theft of identity and social security cards to enable the North Koreans to apply for jobs under their names, according to the Ministry of Justice.
It is not clear from shipping documents how these personal documents were obtained. But DTEX Barnhart says that plagiarism in North Korea usually gets Americans ’identification documents from dark online forums or data leakage sites. In fact, he says that the identities of more than 80 years mentioned by the Ministry of Justice represent a small sample of thousands of the United States that he saw in some cases of piracy infrastructure in North Korea.
