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US authorities have arrested two suspects and seized nearly 190 devices in a crackdown on North Korea’s fake remote IT workers. The FBI warns that the scheme is expanding to include identity theft, extortion and even threats of physical violence.

North Korean IT workers stole Americans’ identities to land remote jobs at local companies and then transferred the earnings to the North Korean regime, according to findings. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defined it as an international crime threatening national security and launched a large-scale crackdown.