Robert McMillan

He Thought an Employee Stole Crypto. The FBI Says It Was a North Korean Scammer. An army of North Korean workers have taken tech jobs at companies around the world, gaining funds for the regime through paychecks, theft and extortion.

New WSJ story by @bobmcmillan.bsky.social:
"[R]esearchers…traced them to a 14-room Airbnb in Laos, posting photographs of them at restaurants and sporting events in Vladivostok, Russia…This team has been generating at least $10 million a year for North Korea"
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He Thought an Employee Stole Crypto. The FBI Says It Was a North Korean Scammer. An army of North Korean workers have taken tech jobs at companies around the world, gaining funds for the regime through paychecks, theft and extortion.

We have been hearing for years now about North Korean IT workers getting jobs at US companies. The DoJ indicted a number of these workers today, and here’s one story explaining how it happens.

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Exclusive | Cyberattack on Washington Post Compromises Email Accounts of Journalists Reporters covering national security and economic policy were among the employees affected by the breach.

Someone broke into reporters’ email accounts at the Washington Post. Story here: www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Remote Jobs—With the Help of Everyday Americans A LinkedIn message drew a former waitress in Minnesota into a type of intricate scam involving illegal paychecks and stolen data. It’s a growing problem for businesses.

I wrote a story with @dustinvolz.bsky.social about a woman in Phoenix who turned her life around by operating a North Korean laptop farm.

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Ha. Thats good. Not kneeling. Still thirsty. Give me more, you lightweight.

Severed Fingers and ‘Wrench Attacks’ Rattle the Crypto Elite As bitcoin soars, investors and executives are taking their swollen digital wallets offline for safety. Criminals are coming after them, violently.

What is going on in France? Wrench attacks on crypto whales and their families have people worried there. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Santa Clarita Man Agrees to Plead Guilty to Hacking Disney Employee’s Computer, Downloading Confidential Data from Company A Santa Clarita man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking the personal computer of an employee of The Walt Disney Company last year, obtaining login information, and using that information to illegall...

You may have read our story a few months back about how a Disney employee had his digital life ruined by a hacker calling himself “Nullbulge”

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Ryan Kramer of Santa Clarita has agreed to plead guilty to the hack.
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I will give that a shot.

Greetings everybody out in the Blue Sky. After the requisite period of lurking, let me say that I am the cybersecurity reporter here at the Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau and I will skeet things.