Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) report, 22 Oct 2025
Kyonghung IT: gambling website development, sale of personal data from client databases, SEO for criminal organizations
(MSMT/2025/2, report p. 57-59) “Aside from developing gambling websites for clients (See Annex 9), DPRK workers at Kyonghung IT have abused their access privilege to website databases to retrieve account information and subsequently sell personal data to third parties. Kyonghung IT has provided search engine optimization (SEO) services to criminal organizations in order to promote gambling websites run by these organizations.” “A typical asking price by Kyonghung IT for a gambling website is a development fee of $5,000 and a monthly maintenance fee ranging from $2,000 to $5,000.”