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US Sentences Two ‘Laptop Farmers’ in North Korea IT Worker Fraud Scheme
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has sentenced two US nationals for helping North Korean information technology workers infiltrate American companies through fraudulent remote working schemes designed to generate revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The prosecutions form part of an escalating US crackdown on DPRK-linked cyber-enabled sanctions evasion operations that increasingly exploit remote working models, stolen identities and outsourced IT rec
OpusDatum
May 64 min read
US Nationals Sentenced Over DPRK Remote IT Worker Fraud Scheme
The Department of Justice has sentenced two US nationals for facilitating a fraudulent remote IT worker scheme that generated more than $5 million in illicit revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, underlining the growing national security risk posed by DPRK cyber-enabled revenue operations. Kejia Wang, 42, of Edison, New Jersey, was sentenced to 108 months in prison, while Zhenxing Wang, 39, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, received a 92-month sentence. Both men
OpusDatum
Apr 152 min read
FinCEN Targets Cambodia-Based Huione Group Over Cyber Heists & Money Laundering
US Treasury Proposes Action to Cut Off $4 Billion Money Laundering Operation Linked to DPRK and Southeast Asian Criminal Syndicates In a...
OpusDatum
May 1, 20252 min read
Fourteen North Korean Nationals Indicted for Carrying Out Multi-Year Fraudulent Information Technology Worker Scheme and Related Extortions
Justice Department Continues Efforts to Seize the Illicit Proceeds of the Scheme Note : View the indictment here and FBI Wanted Posters...
US Department of Justice
Dec 12, 20246 min read
California Man Arrested for Allegedly Exporting Shipments of Firearms, Ammunition and Other Military Items to North Korea
Shenghua Wen, 41, of Ontario, California, was arrested today on a criminal complaint alleging that he exported shipments of firearms,...
US Department of Justice
Dec 3, 20242 min read
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