Justice Department Disrupts North Korean Remote IT Worker Fraud Schemes Through Charges and Arrest of Nashville Facilitator · 2024-08-08 (press release date)
Matthew Isaac Knoot, 38, of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested today for his efforts to generate revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK or North Korea) illicit weapons program, which includes weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Matthew Knoot laptop farm (Nashville) hosting victim company laptops for North Korean IT worker "Yang Di"
SSA Jackson is expected to testify and explain how the presence of remote desktop software on some of the victim company laptops and chat communications between the defendant and Yang Di are consistent with a U.S.-based enabler facilitating a North Korean IT worker's access to the victim company laptops. [Case No. 3:24-cr-00151, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee; filing: NOTICE OF EXPERT TESTIMONY by USA as to Matthew Isaac Knoot]