US Treasury Department sanctions individuals and entities over illegal IT worker scheme
Thursday, 10 July 2025 ()
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Tuesday imposed sanctions on two individuals and four companies involved in schemes to provide US companies with illegal remote IT workers whose income would, it said, generate revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) regime.
Song Kum Hyok, described as a “malicious cyber actor” associated with the already sanctioned DPRK Reconnaissance General Bureau hacking group Andariel, was sanctioned for facilitating the scheme. OFAC said that in 2022 and 2023, Song created aliases for foreign workers using the names, Social Security numbers, and addresses of US individuals, which the workers then used to pose as US applicants looking for remote jobs.
In addition, Russian national Gayk Asatryan, who OFAC said has used his Russia-based companies to employ DPRK IT workers, was sanctioned for “having attempted to engage in, facilitate, or be responsible for the exportation of workers from North Korea, including exportation to generate revenue for the Government of North Korea or Workers’ Party of Korea,” OFAC’s
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