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The Trump administration on Tuesday sanctioned nearly a dozen North Korean individuals and tech groups for their alleged roles in a massive scheme to steal funds from U.S. companies by posing as remote tech employees.
“North Korean state-sponsored hackers steal and launder money to fund the regime’s nuclear weapons program,” John Hurley, under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement. “By generating revenue for Pyongyang’s weapons development, these actors directly threaten U.S. and global security.”
These sanctions are the latest effort by the Trump administration to crack down on the scam, in which North Korean hackers pose as American IT experts to gain employment at hundreds of businesses, including many Fortune 500 groups.
