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North Korean remote IT staffer worked for US government agency, says FBI

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The FBI is reportedly investigating how a North Korean was hired to work for a U.S. federal government agency.

News of the investigation was first reported by Federal News Network, citing a senior FBI official speaking at a conference on July 28 in Washington, D.C.. The official confirmed to Federal News Network that the FBI is investigating a North Korean working for an unnamed federal agency.

It’s unclear how the North Korean was hired, but the regime is known for its coordinated and long-running campaigns aimed at fraudulently obtaining employment at private organizations and multinationals. The case marks a rare confirmed instance of a sanctioned North Korean working for a government agency.

There are thought to be thousands of North Korean IT workers who have gained employment with U.S. and European organizations in recent years by exploiting weaknesses in the hiring process. The goal is to use fraudulent identities to gain employment with remote positions and to earn a wage that gets funneled back to the regime, all the while stealing intellectual property and other data, then using that information to extort the companies when they are inevitably caught.

But strict vetting and security clearance practices have largely kept the regime’s hackers out of government — though, not without incident. The Justice Department brought charges in 2024 against a Maryland man who assisted a North Korean hacker to pose as an American to get a remote job as a contractor for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The FBI did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment on Tuesday, and it’s unclear which federal agency was affected, and if any data or funds were stolen during the incident.

The U.S. has long warned about the risks posed by North Korean IT workers’ schemes. U.S. authorities have taken several enforcement actions and sanctions to stymie both the networks that operate from Pyongyang, as well as neighboring Russia and China, as well as the American facilitators who set up fleets of laptops that allow the North Koreans to work remotely as if they were in the United States.

North Korea operates more like a transnational criminal gang than a government, and relies on hacks, including thefts of cryptocurrency, to fund its globally sanctioned nuclear weapons program. The Kim Jong Un regime is reportedly responsible for 76% of cryptocurrency thefts, per blockchain forensic firms, netting the regime at least $2 billion during 2025 despite being banned from the global financial system.

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2027: Igbo can produce Nigeria’s President only through dignity – Sam Amadi

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The Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Sam Amadi, has hinted on the “only” path the Igbo race can produce Nigeria’s President.

Amadi disclosed that the only pathway for the Igbo nation to produce Nigeria’s President is through dignity.

Posting on X, Amdi wrote: “I have said it before, the only pathway to Igbo presidency in Nigeria is a path called ‘dignity’. Eji ndu eme gini (what is the value of life), talk less of Nigerian presidency, outside dignity.”

During the 2019 and 2023 elections, there were clamours for the South-East to produce Nigeria’s President.

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Former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi was the presidential running mate to then Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar, in 2019 but the party lost.

In 2023, Obi decamped to the Labour Party, LP, in his push to become Nigeria’s President but he came third behind Atiku and eventual winner and candidate of the All Progressives Party, APC.

Meanwhile, Obi will again contest the 2027 presidential election under the platform of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC.

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2027: Abuja is for Peter Obi – Isaac Fayose dares FCT Minister, Wike

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Social commentator and businessman, Isaac Fayose, has claimed that the presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, would comfortably win the 2027 presidential election in Abuja.

Fayose made the claim on Tuesday while appearing on News Central TV, amid a recent statement by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, that the opposition lacks popularity in the nation’s capital.

Wike had, during an interview, described the 2027 election as an easy contest, insisting that President Bola Tinubu would win both Rivers State and the FCT.

However, Fayose disagreed with the minister, asserting that “Abuja is NDC, Abuja is Peter Obi.”

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Fayose stressed that there was nothing else the ruling party could do other than “write results”, but said they had plans to prevent any alleged attempt to rig the election.

According to him, the NDC has put strategies in place to ensure that the election is not manipulated by anyone.

“People are ready to vote. All we are scared of now is what angle are they going to suppress us from this time? This is the only area we are trying to fine-tune.

“Go to the street and try to talk to one or two people. Ask them, ‘Who are you going to vote for?’

“Abroad, before the proper election, they seek people’s opinions on who they want to vote for through mock elections. We don’t do that in Nigeria, but we need to start doing it,” he said.

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