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North Korea Ignores Trump's Overtures
Newsweek
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June 30, 2025
North Korea continues to give the United States the cold shoulder, despite President Donald Trump's apparent willingness to resume dialogue with the country's supreme leader, Kim Jong Un. State media has branded Washington a "hostile force" after...
N. Korean Military Training Delegation Leaves for Russia amid Deepening Ties
KBS World
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July 1, 2025
Photo : YONHAP News A delegation from North Korea’s most prestigious military school has reportedly left for Russia amid deepening military cooperation between the two nations. According to the North’s state Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) on...
N. Korea's delegation of elite military academy leaves for Russia amid deepening ties
Yonhap News Agency
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June 30, 2025
SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean delegation, led by the chief of the country's major military school, has left for Russia, Pyongyang's state media reported Tuesday, amid deepening military cooperation between the two nations. Kim Kum-chol,...
North Korean IT Workers Indicted for Fraud Schemes Targeting U.S. Businesses
Times News Global
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July 1, 2025
BOSTON, Mass. — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday a crackdown on North Korean cyber operations that have defrauded more than 100 companies, including several Fortune 500 corporations. A series of indictments revealed a scheme that...
North Korean IT workers infiltrated Fortune 500 companies in massive fraud scheme
KLIN News Talk - Nebraska
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June 30, 2025
Former NSA intelligence analyst Rocky Cole joins 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss how China could be targeting the power grid through solar panels on farms and possible spyware discovered on iPhones in the United States. NEWYou can now listen to...
North Korean operatives and American accomplices accused in massive fraud that infiltrated the Fortune 500 and stole millions
Fortune
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The Justice Department on Monday announced a significant crackdown on the North Korean IT workers fraud scheme, with two new indictments naming more than a dozen alleged conspirators accused of stealing millions from at least 100 companies in the...
US Announces Crackdown on North Koreans Posing as IT Workers
Bank Information Security - New Jersey
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Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Government DOJ Indictments, Enforcement Actions Follow Nationwide Search for 'Laptop Farms' Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) • June 30, 2025 North Koreans posed as IT workers to...
Feds uncover remote tech workers scheme to benefit North Korea
United Press International (UPI)
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June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced a crackdown on North Korea using people to pose as tech workers to earn money and steal sensitive information for the regime. In two unsealed charging indictments in Massachusetts...
Identities of More Than 80 Americans Stolen for North Korean IT Worker Scams
Wired
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June 30, 2025
For years, the North Korean government has found a burgeoning source of sanctions-evading revenue by tasking its citizens with secretly applying for remote tech jobs in the West. A newly revealed takedown operation by American law enforcement...
Six Americans arrested for sending Bibles to North Korea
Metro World News
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July 1, 2025
Six American citizens were arrested yesterday, Friday, in South Korea when they were trying to launch into the sea over a thousand plastic bottles containing rice, one-dollar bills, and Bibles, in an apparent attempt to reach North Korea. The...
US brings charges in North Korean remote worker scheme that officials say funds weapons...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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Separate cases in Georgia and Massachusetts represent the latest Justice Department effort to confront a persistent threat that officials say generates enormous revenue for the North Korean government and in some cases affords workers access to...
Mass. US Attorney charges 9 with generating more than $5 million for North Korean weapons program
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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A New Jersey man and eight people from China and Taiwan have been charged in a massive technology fraud scheme involving stolen identities and remote IT jobs at companies in 27 states, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as a means of...
U.S. charges 4 North Koreans in cyber plot to fund weapons development
BNO News
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July 1, 2025
Four North Korean nationals have been indicted in Georgia for their alleged roles in a cyber scheme designed to fund the North Korean regime’s weapons and cyber programs, according to prosecutors. The suspects are accused of posing as remote IT...
US busts network that helped North Koreans obtain remote IT work
ETTelecom.com
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July 1, 2025
Washington: The US Justice Department said Monday it has taken down a network that allegedly helped North Koreans obtain remote IT work with companies to raise funds for the sanctioned Asian country's weapons program. A US national, Zhenxing Wang...
Atlanta News First at 7: North Korean agents steal cryptocurrency from Atlanta business, officials say
Atlanta News First - Georgia
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June 30, 2025
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Four North Korean agents were indicted for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency from an Atlanta business, according to prosecutors. Second man dies after weekend shooting at...
North Korea gives Trump’s overtures the cold shoulder
Hankyoreh
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June 30, 2025
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office on June 27, 2025, as he is joined by Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (right) and Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe of Rwanda...
North Korean nationals wanted in cryptocurrency embezzlement scheme; $5M reward
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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The feds have a big warning after they say foreign agents infiltrated one Atlanta business and stole hundreds of thousands. Agents in the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office announced the indictments of four North Korean men just a little while ago. Now,...
US DOJ announces progress combatting North Korean remote IT worker schemes
CSO
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July 1, 2025
Furthermore, the two indictments issued by the US District Court of Massachusetts said, “In order to circumvent controls that targeted US and global companies have designed and implemented to prevent the hiring of illicit IT workers and to...
US shuts down a string of North Korean IT worker scams
The Register
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The US Department of Justice has announced a major disruption of multiple North Korean fake IT worker scams. The feds say that they uncovered [PDF] the North Korean IT staff working at over 100 US companies using fictitious or stolen identities...
Four North Korean remote workers indicted in Atlanta fraud scheme
Reporter Newspapers - Georgia
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June 30, 2025
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