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Five plead guilty to helping North Koreans infiltrate US firms

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Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2025-11-14

Date Updated: 2026-07-18

Author: Bill Toulas

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced guilty pleas from five individuals who helped North Korea generate illicit revenue by selling or stealing U.S. identities to place DPRK-linked remote IT workers at American companies and by facilitating cryptocurrency thefts tied to the APT38/Lazarus group; the actions affected 136 companies, generated over $2.2M for DPRK, and accompany civil forfeiture efforts to seize more than $15M of laundered cryptocurrency from 2023 heists totaling $382M.

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