Inside North Korean IT Workers’ Secret Crypto Operations
Investigations by popular blockchain sleuth ZachXBT have uncovered extensive North Korean infiltration in the global cryptocurrency development job market.
An unnamed source recently compromised a device belonging to a DPRK IT worker and provided unprecedented insight into how a small team of five IT workers operated over 30 fake identities.
DPRK Operatives Flood Crypto Job Market
According to ZachXBT’s tweets, the DPRK team reportedly used government-issued IDs to register accounts on Upwork and LinkedIn, to obtain developer roles on multiple projects. Investigators found an export of the workers’ Google Drive, Chrome profiles, and screenshots, which revealed that Google products were central to organizing…
