North Korean ‘IT Workers’ Infiltrating US Organizations and Extorting Employers, FBI Warns

North Korea continues to put fake ‘IT workers’ inside US organizations for the purpose of data exfiltration and extortion, warns the FBI.

A public service announcement issued Jan. 23 aims to raise public awareness about North Korea’s “increasingly malicious activity.” The FBI noted that the trend not only hasn’t ended, but has been taken further by exfiltration of proprietary data (i.e. source code) and extortion.

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is providing an update to previously