OFAC sanctions North Korean cyber operatives for using disguised foreign agents to steal tech jobs, launder crypto, and fund Pyongyang’s WMD and missile programs

Sanctions target Song Kum Hyok, a DPRK-based cyber actor linked to North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau hacking group Andariel, for orchestrating a global IT worker scheme that recruited North Korean nationals in China and Russia using falsified U.S. identities to gain employment and funnel proceeds toward the regime’s WMD and missile development programs…