🇰🇵 North Korea's 100,000 Fake IT Workers Earn $500M a Year A joint report from IBM X-Force and cybersecurity firm Flare, published this week, has pulled back the curtain on North Korea's sprawling fake IT worker operation, revealing a centrally organized scheme that places thousands of operatives in legitimate technology jobs at companies worldwide—generating an estimated $500 million a year for Pyongyang.