The Brief
- The FBI’s Dallas Field Office is looking for business that may have been victimized by a North Korean IT scheme that is funding the country’s ballistic missile program.
- The scheme involves North Korean workers creating fake identities to gain employment at U.S. companies, with their salaries funneled back to the North Korean government.
- In October, the FBI announced it had seized 187 laptops and devices across 40 locations in Texas as part of an operation to combat the North Korean scheme.
DALLAS – The FBI is looking for businesses in Texas that may have been victimized by a North Korean IT scheme that directly helps fund the state’s missile programs.
North Korean IT scheme
What we know:
The FBI’s Dallas Field Office is seeking to identify businesses that may be victims of a North Korean IT scheme. …