- The North Korean IT worker scheme is getting covert assistance from Chinese firms, a new report found. Front companies in cities like Beijing and Shenyang are providing fake business affiliations so the IT workers can embed themselves in legitimate tech firms and joint ventures, making them more difficult to detect as a threat to corporate security.
An extensive consortium of Chinese businesses—broader than previously believed—could be knowingly or unknowingly propping up a vast global scheme in which North Korean tech workers fund the regime’s nuclear weapons program through remote jobs at Fortune 500 businesses, a new investigation has revealed.
