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US chips away at North Korean IT worker fraud with guilty pleas, cryptocurrency seizure
- The Justice Department charged and secured guilty pleas from four Americans and a Ukrainian national for helping North Korea recruit remote IT workers.
- The defendants allegedly earned illicit proceeds and contributed to more than 136 U.S. companies affected by the fraud.
- The DOJ also announced the seizure of more than $15 million in cryptocurrency linked to the Lazarus Group.
- Officials described North Korea’s remote IT worker schemes as a national security and economic threat.
- Investigations linked the crypto seizures to the Lazarus Group, a known North Korea hacker collective.
- U.S. prosecutors framed the actions as part of a broader 'DPRK RevGen: Domestic Enabler Initiative' to disrupt Pyongyang’s illicit funding.
- The actions followed years of warnings to businesses about North Korean remote IT worker operations.
- The pleas occurred across multiple jurisdictions, including Florida, Georgia, and Washington, D.C.
- Officials emphasized this was part of a broader U.S. effort to disrupt North Korea’s financing of illicit programs.
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