WTH? DPRK WFH Ransomware Redux: 3rd Person Charged

Security Boulevard summarizes a DOJ action dismantling a ‘laptop farm’ run to place North Korean IT workers in Western companies by using stolen identities and AI-altered photos; the operatives reportedly installed information-stealing malware (and could enable ransomware), laundered payments back to DPRK to fund state programs, and several accomplices in the U.S. have been arrested and charged.