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American duo sentenced for hosting laptop farms for North Korean IT workers

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Feed Name: CyberScoop

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-05-07

Date Updated: 2026-05-07

Author: Greg Otto

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The Justice Department sentenced two U.S. nationals for operating laptop farms that allowed North Korean IT workers to appear as domestic remote employees, impacting almost 70 U.S. companies, generating about $1.2M for the DPRK, and forming part of a widespread sanctions-evasion and network-infiltration scheme that has touched hundreds of businesses including Fortune 500 firms.

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