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North Korean officials Accusing the US Department of Justice (DOJ) of conducting an “absurd brain campaign” after the announcement that it has solved several schemes of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) to finance the regime through work with remote information technology for US companies.
Earlier this week a Doj North Korean actors were said to be assisted by individuals in the US, China, the United Emirates and Taiwan for employment in more than 100 US companies, including Fortune 500 companies.
The scheme allegedly involved workers who get laptops from the companies that hired them and allowed remote IT Korean workers to access computers remotely. In another scheme, North Korean IT workers used a false identity to get a job in Blockchain research and development in Atlanta, Georgia, and steal more than $ 900,000 in virtual currency.
As part of its announcement of the North Korean scheme, Doj relaxed the accusation of five against Zhensking Wang, the National USA in New Jersey, which has been arrested since then.
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On Saturday, March 20, 2021, the North Korean flag flies at the North Korea Embassy in Kuala -Lumpur, Malaysia. (Samsul said/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Van and its co -authors, said Doj, got, got removed it labor With US companies and received more than $ 5 million.
Chinese Jing Bin Juan, Baoy Zhou, Tong Yuz, Junge Su, Ziy Yuan and Zhengban Zhou also charged with charges. Taiwan citizens who believe Liu and Enchu were also accused of charges.
He was also charged with Tony’s national Keji, also New Jersey, who was charged separately.
The North Korean news agency KCNA said the US Foreign Ministry’s press has hacked the US judicial system for its actions against the DPRK citizens suspicion of cybercrime.
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The United States has opened a complex scheme involving North Korean IT workers who remotely resorted to computers from fake hiring to the United States to steal money to finance the DPRK. (Wohae Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Image)
“The recent incident is a ridiculous mammary campaign and a serious violation of the sovereignty aimed at covering the image of our state, since it is a long step of consecutive US administrations, which largely spoke about non-existent” cyber-abages “by the People’s Republic of China,-the spokesman said. “The DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses serious concern about the provocation of the US judicial bodies, which threatens and encroaches on the security, rights and interests of our citizens, producing a groundless” cyber -drive “and strongly denies it.”
The press secretary has accused the United States of creating “international cyberspace” instability, not the DPRK.
“The US has long pose a constant threat to the DPRK cybersecurity and other sovereign states, making the cyber space of the battle scene and abuse cyber -problems as political weapons, to ruin the image of other countries and aggravate its legal rights,” the press secretary said.
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has the right to accept the proper and proportional countermelum to carefully protect the safety and rights of its citizens from judicial fulfillment of the ominous political purpose and call for strict legal accounting of outsiders who have taken malicious actions,” the press secretary concluded.
Doj said the allegations claimed that since 2021 and most of the 2024, the accused and other co -authorized conspirators compromised more than 80 people in the US to get remote jobs in more than 100 companies. As a result, the victims of the victims were charged, the cost of restoring the computer network and other losses and losses of at least $ 3 million.
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The Ministry of Justice has presented numerous schemes of North Korean IT specialists, focusing on US companies. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Keji and Zhensing, as well as at least four other US owners, allegedly assisted abroad IT workers with different parts of the scheme.
Kejia and Zhenxing allegedly created by Shell companies with websites and financial accounts to make them look as if overseas IT workers were linked to legal businesses in the US after creating, both allegedly received money from US companies, and the funds were moved from abroad.
In exchange for their services, Keji, Zhensing and the other four conspirators in the US received at least $ 696,000 from IT workers.
Doj He said that one of the companies that allegedly addressed the data was a defense contractor that develops equipment and technology that works on artificial intelligence. Accessed to the company’s data, the schemes were trusted by the International Rules for Weapons (ITAR), DOJ said.
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DOJ also announced that the FBI Criminal Service and Defense Service (DCIS) has seized 17 web dummates used within the scheme, as well as 29 financial accounts that conduct tens of thousands of dollars used to launch income for the North Korean regime.
Doj introduced another part of this scheme, which resulted in the results of five -scale fraud and money laundering against four North Korean citizens: Kim Kwang Jin, Kang Te, John Pong Jun and Change us II.
The suspects are accused of stealing virtual currency in two companies, the cost of more than $ 900,000 at the time of thefts and laundering.
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All four citizens, according to Doj, are at large and wanted the FBI.
