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US Treasury sanctions Song Kum Hyok for facilitating North Korean IT worker schemes
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned North Korean cyber actor Song Kum Hyok. Song enabled strategies for IT workers to obtain jobs at firms by utilizing fictitious identities.
U.S. sanctions North Korean hacker for crimes benefitting Kim Jong Un's arms programs
The federal government has sanctioned alleged North Korean hacker Song Kum Hyok for illegal activities related to his ...
The Register on MSN5h
US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader
Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on ...
Fake IT workers fund Kim Jong Un’s missile program, says U.S. Treasury
U.S. sanctions a ring of IT workers linked to North Korea, accused of infiltrating crypto firms to fund the missile program.
Sanctioning Malicious North Korean Cyber Actors
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea deploys IT workers who obfuscate their identities, often through identity theft of U.S. persons, to fraudulently obtain employment at unwitting foreign firms.
The Floridian9h
Treasury Sanctions North Korean Foreign Workers Financing Nuclear Weapons Programs
The US Treasury Department has announced new sanctions against North Korean nationals working in foreign countries who ...
U.S. sanctions North Korean member of Kim Jong Un's spy agency
Song Kum Hyok is accused of masterminding a scheme in which North Korean cyber operatives posed as U.S. remote IT workers for ...
The Hacker News10h
U.S. Sanctions North Korean Andariel Hacker Behind Fraudulent IT Worker Scheme
The IT worker scheme, also tracked as Nickel Tapestry, Wagemole, and UNC5267, involves North Korean actors using a mix of ...
GMX halts trading, token minting following $40 million exploit
The GMX V1 cryptocurrency exchange was hacked by malicious actors on Wednesday, draining $40 million from the platform's GLP ...
Blaze Trends16h
US Treasury sanctions North Korean for infiltrating crypto firms with IT operatives, funding Pyongyang.
The US Treasury isn't pulling any punches. They just hit a North Korean man, Song Kum Hyok, with serious sanctions. He's accused of helping North Korea's ...
US targets North Korean fake IT worker scheme with China and Russia links
The ‘workers’ were given false American identities so they could hold remote jobs with US firms and generate money for Kim ...