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.