India, July 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on the mastermind of an information technology worker scheme generating revenue for the North Korean Kim Regime.
The Treasury alleges that Song Kum Hyok, who is a malicious cyber actor linked with Pyongyang's military intelligence agency, known as the "Reconnaissance General Bureau," used foreign-hired IT workers to seek remote employment with U.S. companies and planned to split income with them.
As a notorious member of the hacking group Andariel, Song facilitated an IT worker scheme by recruiting North Korean nationals working from countries such as China and Russia with falsified identities and nationalities to obtain employment at U.S. companies to generate rev...