North Korean dev who renamed himself 'Bane' accused of IT worker fraud scheme

The US is indicting yet another five suspects it believes were involved in North Korea's long-running, fraudulent remote IT worker scheme – including one who changed their last name to "Bane" and scored a gig at a tech biz in San Francisco.

Two North Korean nationals residing in China, Jin Sung-Il and Pak Jin-Song, are among the indicted, accused of carrying out various jobs for numerous US companies, all facilitated by three others running so-called laptop farms.

Mexican national Pedro Ernesto Alonso De Los Reyes, who lives in Sweden, and US nationals Erick Ntekereze Prince and Emanuel Ashtor, of New York and North Carolina respectively, were also charged for facilitating the scheme.

Alonso is accused of willfully allowing the North Korean devs to use his genuine identity to create fake US worker visa documents, while Prince and Ashtor are alleged to have registered and ran Taggcar and Vali Tech respectively ...