The yearslong scheme goes much deeper than contract work, extending to roles beyond traditional IT and sometimes granting the insider threat “keys to the kingdom,” DTEX President Mohan Koo said.

Financially motivated by salaries now, but what’s next?

For now, North Korean technical workers are focused on attaining employment, doing those jobs, and sending the money they earn back to Pyongyang.

North Korean technical workers generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the North Korean regime, according to Unit 42.

  • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    Imagine being so enslaved that all your high earnings goes to some asshole aristocratic dictator and you have no fucking say at all. Just slave your ass away. Feels like a lot of the world is heading this direction.