The Dark Night Online | NORTH KOREA Vs. USA - Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Action to Disrupt Illicit Revenue Generation Efforts of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Information Technology Workers.
Seizures of Money and Infrastructure from Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) IT Workers Follows Successful Efforts to Empower Independent Private Sector Disruptive Actions.
On Oct. 17, pursuant to a court order issued in the Eastern District of Missouri, the United States seized 17 website domains used by North Korean information technology (IT) workers in a scheme to defraud U.S. and foreign businesses, evade sanctions and fund the development of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) government’s weapons program. These seizures follow the previously sealed October 2022 and January 2023 court-authorized seizures of approximately $1.5 million of the revenue that the same group of IT workers collected from unwitting victims as a result of their scheme, as well as the development of public-private information-sharing partnerships that denied the IT workers access to their preferred online freelance work and payment service providers.
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