<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>The U.S. Department of Justice took enforcement actions against North Korea's remote IT workers operation, which aimed to raise funds for the regime's nuclear weapons program and steal data and cryptocurrency.</li><li>A U.S. national named Zhenxing 'Danny' Wang was arrested and indicted for running a fraud scheme to bring North Korean IT workers into U.S. tech companies, generating over $5 million for the North Korean regime.</li><li>Eight more individuals, including Chinese and Taiwanese citizens, were indicted for participating in the scheme, involving wire fraud, money laundering, identity theft, hacking, and violating sanctions.</li><li>The scheme included impersonating U.S. individuals to secure jobs at American companies, setting up laptop farms to hide the workers' origins, and stealing sensitive data from the companies, including source code from a California-based defense contractor.</li></ul>

US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation

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