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North Korean workers in Russia allowed only one shower a year and ‘treated worse than cattle’

Kim Jong Un’s overseas labour programme has forced thousands of North Koreans to live under life-threatening conditions across Russian cities, with their basic rights curtailed, to fund the authoritarian state’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, experts tell Arpan Rai

The Independent UK

North Korea's crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it's responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total

The regime may have made off with more than $2B last year.

PC Gamer

Amazon is reportedly being deluged with North Korean job applicants eager to break inside its walls

Amazon detections are up 27%, with Microsoft also worried about North Korean remote job applications.

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North Korean hackers stole record $2 billion in crypto in 2025, including single heist worth $1.5 billion, report claims — rogue state accounts for 60% of all reported crypto thefts this year, $6.75 billion total since records began

Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis says DPRK has set a record for 2025, with the regime expected to execute more sophisticated attacks in the future.

Tom’s Hardware

North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security specialists at the online retail giant.

Tom’s Hardware

Kim Jong Un’s sister says war games show South Korea has ‘dual personality’

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, dismisses South Korean president’s latest outreach as hypocrisy

The Independent UK

North Korea says US must accept its status as a nuclear weapons state

North Korean leader’s powerful sister says talks aimed at denuclearisation would be interpreted as a ‘mockery’.

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Six signs North Korea has agents in your company

North Korea’s shadow IT workforce is a global, for-profit operation embedding operatives inside major companies.

Fortune

North Korean operative reveals the inner workings of the IT scam infiltrating the Fortune 500 — ‘They had no idea that we were from North Korea’

Thousands of IT workers are trapped inside a global operation that funds North Korea’s weapons program, but one managed to escape.

Fortune

North Korean operatives and American accomplices accused in massive fraud that infiltrated the Fortune 500 and stole millions

The Justice Department, in a series of indictments, has laid out the use of front companies as a way to further the North Korean IT worker scheme.

Fortune

Executions, forced labour and starvation persist in North Korea, UN official says

Increased repression post-pandemic in the isolated country, says human rights expert

The Independent UK

North Korea's only Steam user disappeared yesterday, but not to worry: They're back and gaming harder than ever

Probably ragequit a CS match. Been there, man.

PC Gamer

North Korea suffered more than 6,000 casualties in Ukraine, UK intelligence says

North Korea’s total casualties amount to more than half of the approximately 11,000 DPRK troops initially deployed to Kursk, says UK

The Independent UK

‘Anthony from Staten Island’ said he developed a chat tool for Meta. His entire identity was fake.

A suspected North Korean IT worker tried to get a tech role at an identity verification firm.

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Chinese companies are secretly powering North Korea’s global IT workers scheme

A host of Chinese front companies could be helping North Korean IT workers infiltrate U.S. businesses, a report reveals.

Fortune

North Korean IT worker scheme infiltrated an American election campaign website

Software developers from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea continue to conceal their identities to get jobs with American firms in violation of international sanctions.

Fortune

North Korean IT workers are spamming tech firms with fake résumés. One founder says he came up with 'a foolproof way' of weeding them out

Trained North Korean engineers are getting legitimate jobs in tech to fund their country’s weapons of mass destruction program.

TechRadar

Google warns North Korean spies are gaining positions in Western firms

North Korean hackers are posing as legitimate IT workers, Google experts warn.

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The Independent UK

A holiday to North Korea is ‘like a school trip’ says operator behind new tour as isolated nation reopens

Exclusive: ‘You enjoy and endure a trip to North Korea in equal measure,’ says Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours

International Business Times

Hyperliquid Sees Massive Outflows Amid Concerns Over Alleged Presence Of North Korea-Linked Hackers

A security researcher's revelation about the supposed presence of North Korea-linked hackers within the Hyperliquid platform has triggered a staggering $502 million in outflows.

Evening Standard

North Korean troops so 'poorly trained' that Putin army yet to throw them into battle, say western officials

The DPRK soldiers are expected to be used in the fight for the Kursk region of Russia

Al Jazeera

US, South Korea and Japan slam ‘dangerous’ ties between Russia, North Korea

Leaders from the three countries met on the sidelines of the 2024 APEC summit to voice opposition to North Korea treaty.

Evening Standard

UK needs to be ‘critical friend’ to Trump, says Davey

The Lib Dem leader called the president-elect a ‘dangerous, destructive demagogue’ this week after US voters returned him to the White House.

The Conversation

Kim Jong-un sends North Korean troops to fight in Ukraine – here’s what this means for the war

It is still unclear how many North Korean soldiers will find their way onto the killing fields of eastern Ukraine. What is clear is that the drive to recruit fighting forces from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is at least in part politically motivated. But is it also…

TechRadar

Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers

Working remotely, North Korean infiltrators used fake or stolen identities to apply to US companies

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