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Cryptoprivacy on trial: jury to decide if Tornado Cash's Roman Storm is a $1B money launderer or a free speech hero
Accused crypto-launderer Roman Storm says he's just a software engineer. The DOJ says his Tornado Cash tool helped Kim Jong ...
Russia warns against targeting North Korea
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov traveled to North Korea on Friday to meet with his North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and ...
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🧨 U.S. slams sanctions on North Korea’s fake job ring funding missile programs
In a powerful move to defend national security, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed tough sanctions on ...
Tornado Cash Made Crypto Anonymous. Now One of Its Creators Faces Trial
Roman Storm, one of the developers of crypto-anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, will stand trial in New York starting July 14.
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US Treasury Department sanctions individuals and entities over illegal IT worker scheme
Russians and North Koreans contributed to the scheme to provide illegal remote IT workers to US companies to fund the North ...
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U.S. Treasury scrubs crypto broker reporting rules
The Treasury has on Thursday quietly erased a major crypto reporting rule that would’ve forced platforms across the industry, ...
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U.S. Sanctions North Korean Andariel Hacker Behind Fraudulent IT Worker Scheme
The IT worker scheme, also tracked as Nickel Tapestry, Wagemole, and UNC5267, involves North Korean actors using a mix of ...
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US authorities unmask North Korean IT workers and their American accomplices
Federal officials said businesses should carefully verify the identities of remote employees to avoid falling prey to similar ...
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US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader
Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on ...
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The Cybersecurity Threat Posed by Remote IT Workers from North Korea: How Should Companies Respond?
On June 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a series of actions to disrupt schemes involving remote information technology (IT) workers from North Korea. To combat this ...
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New North Korean Hacker Group Sanctioned Over Crypto Thefts In The US
Here’s how four individuals have now been sanctioned by the US government over recent “hacking by infiltration” crypto ...
U.S. sanctions North Korean member of Kim Jong Un's spy agency
Song Kum Hyok is accused of masterminding a scheme in which North Korean cyber operatives posed as U.S. remote IT workers for ...