WASHINGTON — The United States said on Wednesday (Oct 18) it has seized 17 website domains used by North Korean information technology workers in a scheme to allegedly defraud businesses, evade sanctions and fund the development of North Korea's weapons programme.
The seizures took place on Tuesday pursuant to a court order in Missouri, the US Justice Department said in a statement.
North Korea has "flooded the global marketplace with ill-intentioned information technology workers to indirectly fund its ballistic missile programme," the Justice Department said on Wednesday, urging employers to be cautious. In the past, the US State Department has warned that hiring North Korean IT workers could also lead to incidents of intellectual property theft.
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