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Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time

theregister·Brandon Vigliarolo·25 days ago
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cyber-crime Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince will each do 18 months for hosting laptops used by North Korean IT workers to remotely infiltrate US companies Playing host to company laptops used by North Korean scammers posing as American IT workers might earn you a cut of the cash Pyongyang siphons from US firms, but as two more suckers have learned, it also means taking the fall when the FBI figures out what’s going on.  Matthew Isaac Knoot, from Nashville, Tennessee, and Erick Ntekereze Prince, of New York, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison in separate cases, the Justice Department reported Wednesday. Prince and Knoot will also face three years and one year of supervised release, respectively, after their prison terms.  While the cases were different, the crimes were largely the same, with both Knoot and Prince misrepresenting themselves as either an American IT worker, or a company offering IT services performed by Americans, respectively.…

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