According to Chainalysis, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity on October 28 for participating in a North Korea-led IT worker fraud scheme. The network used fake identities to secure employment at U.S. companies, generating cryptocurrency income to fund the North Korean regime and weapons programs.

The sanctioned individuals include Russian nationals Ilya Aleksandrovich Boykov and Vitold Viktorovich Obertas, who facilitated the conversion of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency to cash, as well as North Korean nationals Kim Ki Hyok and Kim Hyo Dong, who managed IT workers in Russia and collected their earnings. The North Korean IT worker network generates an estimated 2.5 billion to 6 billion dollars annually and increasingly uses AI tools to forge resumes and conduct fake interviews.

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