FBI: North Korean IT workers steal source code to extort employers

The FBI warns that North Korean IT workers are being hired remotely by companies, then copying source code, harvesting credentials and session tokens, exfiltrating sensitive data, and extorting former employers; the advisory details related indictments, prior warnings, and large-scale nation-state-linked cryptocurrency thefts, and recommends least-privilege access, stronger onboarding checks, log monitoring, and scrutiny of remote access practices.