Federal authorities have charged 14 people and seized roughly 187 computers in their newest effort to disrupt North Korea’s remote IT worker scheme. The Justice Department announced the indictment Tuesday, highlighting two arrests and searches of more than 40 residences in Texas known or suspected to operate as “laptop farms,” where facilitators maintain employer-issued laptops so North Korean engineers can use them while abroad.
DOJ charges 14 over a sprawling North Korean remote work scheme
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