US targets North Korean IT worker army with new sanctions

The U.S. Treasury’s OFAC sanctioned two individuals and two companies tied to North Korean IT worker schemes that place disguised or stolen-identity tech workers into foreign firms and use laptop farms to hide their location; these operations steal data, plant malware, and funnel earnings (including laundered cryptocurrency) to fund DPRK weapons programs, with Chainalysis linking a designated actor’s Bitcoin wallet and prior enforcement actions identifying multiple related individuals and companies.