{"id":49635,"date":"2022-12-09T03:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T03:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/north-korea-using-freelance-techies-to-fund-missiles-and-nukes\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T03:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T03:35:06","slug":"north-korea-using-freelance-techies-to-fund-missiles-and-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/north-korea-using-freelance-techies-to-fund-missiles-and-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea using freelance techies to fund missiles and nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korean IT pros are using freelancing platforms to earn money that the nation’s authoritarian government uses to fund the development of missiles and nuclear weapons, according to South Korea’s government. Seoul therefore wants gig platforms to impose stricter checks to restrict its enemy’s activities.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s intelligence services, national police, and five ministries yesterday published a warning<\/a> about the North’s (DPRK) tactics that opens as follows:<\/p>\n

Those workers’ real job, the warning asserts, is “earning foreign currency and financing nuclear and missile programs for the regime.”<\/p>\n

To hide their origins and purpose, North Korean IT workers forge fake identities.<\/p>\n

“They illicitly collect foreigners’ driver’s licenses and identification cards and replace the photos on identification documents with their own using Photoshop,” the advisory states.<\/p>\n