Court documents allege that North Korea’s government dispatched thousands of skilled IT workers to live primarily in China and Russia with the goal of deceiving businesses from the U.S. and elsewhere into hiring them as freelance remote employees. The workers used various techniques to make it look like they were working in the U.S., including paying Americans to use their home Wi-Fi connections

Dang what kind of Wi-Fi Access point are they using to reach from the US to China.

“If you refuse to return to the office, we will assume you work on behalf of North Korean intelligence, and will be monitored by our WFH bots. Please keep your curtains open.”

It sounds like the companies did a shitty job of hiring and didn’t confirm that these people weren’t spies.

Federal authorities say that thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program

The workers used various techniques to make it look like they were working in the U.S., including paying Americans to use their home Wi-Fi connections

Greenberg said any company that hired freelance IT workers “more than likely” hired someone participating in the scheme.

“We can tell you that there are thousands of North Korea IT workers that are part of this,” spokeswoman Rebecca Wu said.

Wow this is so much bigger than I initially thought. Just how many companies were duped into hiring North Koreans?

Dang, that’s wild.

I’m still not going back to the office.