U.S. DOJ Pursues North Korea’s Illicit Money Machine, Seizes More Crypto
The U.S. Department of Justice rounded up several convictions in its pursuit of domestic helpers in schemes by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to pocket large amounts of cryptocurrency, and it also seized assets from cyber heists targeting crypto platforms, the department said in a Friday statement.
The five guilty pleas announced by the DOJ were connected to individuals that aided North Korea in getting U.S. jobs for fraudulent information-technology workers, obtaining stolen U.S. identities for the workers and helping mask their geographic origin as the IT employees pulled down paychecks from dozens of U.S. businesses. Probes conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation “continue to expose the North Korean…
