US hits senior North Korean officials with sanctions, $3 million bounties

U.S. authorities sanctioned three senior North Korean facilitators and unsealed indictments related to an IT worker scheme run through Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company that recruited workers using stolen identities and operated laptop farms and malware-enabled theft to generate revenue—some of which funded DPRK ballistic missile programs and related procurement; bounties were announced and guidance for HR teams issued to detect such illicit hires.