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Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-02-20

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Connor Jones

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Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko was sentenced to five years in the U.S. for running Upworksell.com and funding laptop farms that enabled North Korean IT workers to use stolen U.S. identities and proxy access to obtain remote employment, funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to Pyongyang; authorities seized the domain, arrested and extradited him, and he forfeited over $1.4 million and will pay restitution.

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