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North Korean remote IT workers embedded at organizations worldwide

Date (as written)
Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025
Year
2025
Country
around the world; US-based companies
Actors (as written)
North Korean IT workers (Jasper Sleet)
Actor pages
North Korean IT workers
Tags (as written)
IT workers; revenue generation
Dollar figures (as written)
hundreds of millions of dollars a year

Source entries (1)

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.
https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/msc/documents/presentations/CSR/Microsoft-Digital-Defense-Report-2025.pdf

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