The Treasury’s office approved the fraudulent information technology (IT) activist (IT) worker scheme designed to generate illegal revenue for Pyongyang, a North Korean Front Company of Foreign Property Control (OFAC).
Ban Korea Sobeksu Trading Company (aka Sobekasu United Corporation), and Kim Cess, Joe King Hun, and Mying Chola Min targets the restrictions imposed by the US and the United Nations to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) government.
OFC Bradley T. Smith’s director said, “Our commitment is clear: the Treasury, as part of the entire government’s effort, will continue to justify those who want to infiltrate the global supply chains and enable restrictions that will enable the theft activities that carry forward the unstable agenda of the Kim regime.”
The latest action marks the US government’s ongoing efforts to abolish North Korea’s extensive revenue generation schemes and fund its illegal nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
The IT worker scheme, which has been mutated in a global threat, forces the DPRK regime to send highly skilled IT workers to various places including China, Russia and Vietnam, which uses laptops often use laptop Help with forms.
Which is described as a recurring, if “the baffler,” theme, many of these fake workers have been found to use minion and other lower ME characters in social-media profiles and email addresses.
Treasury said, “The DPRK government prevents most of the wages earned by IT workers, which produces millions of dollars in revenue to support the massive destruction of North Korean government and illegal weapons of ballistic missile programs.” “In some cases, these DPRK IT workers have introduced malware in the company network to exfiltrate ownership and sensitive data.”
The development took place a few weeks after the 38 -year -old member of a 38 -year -old member of the North Korean hacking group for his role in the IT worker scheme.
In the relevant news, Erizona’s 50 -year -old Christina Mary Chapman was sentenced to 8.5 years in jail for IT workers to run a laptop farm to give an impression that they were working far away within America, when in fact, they were logging in to those machines. Chapman convicted this in early February.
The affected companies included an apex-high major television network, a silicone Valley technology company, an aerospace manufacturer, an American car manufacturer, an luxury retail store and an American media and entertainment company. IT workers also unsuccessfully tried to work in two separate American government agencies.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized more than 90 laptops from Chapman’s house during the October 2023 raid. Chapman is also called about 49 laptops at places abroad, including several shipments in a Chinese city on the North Korean border.
Overall, the detailed fake operation earned more than $ 17 million in illegal revenue for Chapman and North Korea from October 2020 to October 2023. Chapman has also been ordered to serve a three -year supervised release, with $ 284,556, which was to be paid to the North Korean people, and giving a decision of $ 176,850.
“Christina Chapman abolished a one -year -long plan, resulting in millions of dollars for the DPRK regime, exploited more than 300 US companies and government agencies, and stole dozens of identity of American citizens,” Accessory General Matthew R, assistant at the Criminal Division of the Judicial Department. Geloti said.
