U.S. officials warn about North Korean IT workers posing as freelance contractors

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U.S. officials are warnings private companies that North Korean IT workers are attempting to do remote contract work with businesses and funnel the proceeds back to Kim Jong Un’s regime.

"An overseas [North Korean] IT worker earns at least ten times more than a conventional North Korean laborer working in a factory or on a construction project overseas."

In this Saturday, April 11, 2020, file photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a politburo meeting of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang. While most of the workers just funnel money back to regime, some of them have "used the privileged access gained as contractors "to enable North Korea's "malicious cyber intrusions," the officials said.

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When we start blaming the North Koreans it's really the democRATS. North Korea is still on the 89' IBM computers.

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