The U.S. Department of Justice announced that two Americans were sentenced to years in prison for helping the North Korean government place fake IT workers in U.S. companies.
An apparent North Korean worker was caught visibly stumped during a remote job interview when asked to insult the country’s leader.
North Korean hackers pushed out malicious updates to a popular open source project by hacking a top developer’s computer in a long-running campaign.
A Ukrainian man has been sentenced for helping North Koreans gain fraudulent employment at dozens of U.S. companies and funnel that money back to the regime to fund its nuclear weapons program.
This was another banner year for crypto hacks and heists — 2025 was the third year in a row that a new crypto theft record was set.