North Korea’s clandestine IT Worker (ITW) program, which is long known for targeting U.S. technology firms and crypto firms, has broadened its scope to attempt to infiltrate a variety of industries worldwide, including finance, healthcare, public administration, and professional services. Okta’s threat researchers have identified over 130 identities associated with DPRK-linked facilitators and workers, which collectively pursued more than 6,500 interviews across 5,000+ companies until mid-2025, and have found that the threat is far more … More →

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