Americans sentenced for running 'laptop farms' for North Korea

Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months each for operating "laptop farms" that allowed North Korean IT workers to pose as legitimate U.S. employees and obtain remote jobs at dozens of American companies; the report details financial losses (payments and remediation costs totaling hundreds of thousands to over a million dollars), identity theft, and ties to a broader North Korean illicit revenue-generation effort that has targeted hundreds of firms.