💻 How North Korea Earns Hundreds of Millions Remotely
North Korea has found one of the most effective ways to replenish the country's budget and circumvent sanctions 🌍💰
According to the UN and the US Department of Justice, this scheme brings the country up to $600 million a year 😳
⚙️ What is the essence of the scheme?
👨💻 North Korean IT specialists are employed by Western companies
🪪 They work under fictitious identities of real people
🤖 They use AI-generated photos and fake documents
🌐 They hide their actual location, posing as employees from the USA or the EU
💸 They receive their salaries through intermediaries or in cryptocurrency
🏛️ Up to 85% of the income is confiscated by the state — the money goes into the budget and the nuclear program ☢️
📉 Scale
🔹 Due to a shortage of personnel, such specialists have infiltrated hundreds of companies
🔹 Including even Amazon 😬
🕵️♂️ Additional risk —
📂 theft of confidential data
💣 preparation for future hacker attacks
🇷🇺 Interesting fact
In October 2025, the first North Korean IT company was registered in Russia,
allegedly for the legal "export of IT specialists" 🤔