🚨 How North Korea Secretly Earns HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS Online 💻🌍💰
North Korea has developed one of the most effective sanction-dodging money machines in the world. 🧠⚡
According to the UN 🇺🇳 and the U.S. Department of Justice 🇺🇸⚖️, this operation generates up to $600 MILLION per year 💵💵💵
This isn’t hacking banks.
This is infiltrating companies.
⚙️ So what’s the scheme?
👨💻 North Korean IT specialists get jobs in Western companies
🪪 They use stolen identities of real people
🧠 AI-generated profile photos
📄 Fake documents
🌐 VPNs + location masking to appear “working from home” in the US or EU
To employers?
They look like normal remote tech workers. 🏠💼
In reality? They’re state-linked operators.
💸 Where does the money go?
💰 Salaries paid via intermediaries
🪙 Sometimes through crypto
🚨 Up to 85% of income is seized by the North Korean state
That cash doesn’t stop at the budget…
☢️ It helps fund weapons and nuclear programs
Remote job → Paycheck → Regime funding pipeline. 🔁
📉 The scale is massive
Because of global tech worker shortages 📊
These operatives have slipped into HUNDREDS of companies
🏢 Even major firms like Amazon have reportedly been targeted
And it’s not just salaries:
🔓 Data theft
🧩 Access planting
💣 Laying groundwork for future cyber attacks
This is long-game infiltration, not smash-and-grab hacking.
🌍 New development
In October 2025, a North Korean-linked IT firm was reportedly registered in Russia 🇷🇺
Claimed purpose?
“Legal export of IT specialists” 👀
That blurs the line between covert ops and state-tolerated tech labor pipelines
This is modern warfare without missiles 🚫🚀
Just laptops, fake LinkedIn profiles, and payroll systems. 💻🎭💳
And most companies still don’t see it coming.
