Microsoft Digital Defense Report
North Korean remote IT workers embedded at organizations worldwide · Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025
For over a decade, North Korea has remotely stealthily embedded tens of thousands of workers at organizations around the world in a trend that is quicky accelerating. ... As discussed below, this growing army of workers remits hundreds of millions of dollars a year to North Korea. ... The United States ranks first in our nation-state notification system for North Korea due to the high volume of remote IT worker activity targeting US-based companies.