US authorities have sued five people for their alleged involvement in a multi-year scheme that saw them get away with dozens of US companies.
The Department of Justice on Thursday announced the indictment of North Korean citizens Jin Sung-il and a little Jin-sting; Pedro Ernesto Alonso de Los Reyes from Mexico, and US nationals Eriick Tankers Prince and Emanuel Stone.
Doj said the FBI arrested Ntertese and the bone, and a search of the House of North Carolina found evidence of a “laptop farme” that waited for laptops offered by the company to deceive organizations thinking they had employed workers in SH Reaches Out
Alonso was also arrested in the Netherlands after a US order was given.
According to the indictment, Ntertese and Kingor are suspected of installing a distance access program, including Anydek and Teamviewer, on equipment offered by the company, allowing North Koreans to hide their seats. Both Americans also provided JIN with a little with forged identity documents, including US passports and US bank accounts.
The indictment claims that the defendants gained employment from at least 64 US organizations during the multi-year scheme, which took place from April 2018 to August 2024. IT with Palo Alto.
According to the Department of Justice, payments out of ten of those companies generated at least $ 866,255 in revenue, most of which were cleared through a Chinese bank account.
“The Justice Department remains committed to disrupting North Korea’s opposing sanctions schemes that seek to deceive US companies to fund the advantages of the North Korean regime, including its weapons programs,” Devin Debacker, official Supervisory with the Department of Justice National security of the Department of Justice Division, said in a statement.
In addition to Thursday’s indictments, which come just days after the Treasury Department sanctioned two individuals and four entities for allegedly involvement in similar behavior, the FBI issued an advisory warning that North Korean IT workers are increasingly engaging Many in malicious activities, including data extortion.
The agency said it has noticed North Korean IT employees who use illegal access to enterprise networks to “examine property and sensitive data, to facilitate cyber criminal activities and to carry out income generation activity in the name of the regime. ”
