DOJ indicts two Americans for running laptop farm used in North Korea IT worker scam

The Justice Department indicted five individuals for running a transnational scheme that enabled North Korean IT workers to be employed at U.S. companies using forged or stolen identities and "laptop farms"; the operation ran from 2018–2024, earned roughly $866k in the described case (with far larger estimated DPRK revenues overall), and involved remote-access tools, money laundering, and data extortion, prompting arrests, sanctions, and FBI advisories.