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North Korean dev who renamed himself 'Bane' accused of IT worker fraud caper

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STIX ID: report--b3a7baf0-f164-5149-858c-7fbf3ccc2b6c

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2025-01-24

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Connor Jones

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The DOJ indicted five individuals for facilitating a multi-year North Korean scheme that used laptop farms, fake identities and remote access tools (AnyDesk, TeamViewer) to place remote IT contractors at US firms, resulting in large salary fraud, laundering, theft of proprietary code and extortion across at least 64 victim companies; the FBI warns the actors' tradecraft is increasing in aggressiveness.

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