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Evan Ratliff

@ev_rat
10 posts
2025-07-26
One of the wildest twists for me (spoiler): A large, publicly traded cybersecurity firm made experts available to me to explain the DPRK IT worker phenomenon. Then I found out they'd neglected to mention one fact: The firm *itself* had inadvertently employed nine North Koreans.
2025-07-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a “laptop farmer”

Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un's rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon.

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New for @BW: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They've all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. I delved into the scheme, with exclusive access to an American facilitator who enabled it: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-07-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a “laptop farmer”

Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un's rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon.

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Chapman had been recruited as a “laptop farmer,” paid to illegally maintain computers for dozens of North Korean agents with IT jobs across American industries. When the FBI moved to take down the network, she became the target. Over the past few months, she's told me her story.
2025-07-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a “laptop farmer”

Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un's rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon.

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In 2020, Christina Chapman got a DM from a stranger on LinkedIn. What she thought was a door to a new career led instead into a web of intrigue stretching from North Korea into hundreds of American companies, including some of the most valuable on the planet.
2025-07-26 View on X
The Record

A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an Arizona woman to eight and a half years in prison for running a laptop farm used …

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New for @BW: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They've all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. I delved into the scheme, with exclusive access to an American facilitator who enabled it: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-07-26 View on X
The Record

A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an Arizona woman to eight and a half years in prison for running a laptop farm used …

View original
Chapman had been recruited as a “laptop farmer,” paid to illegally maintain computers for dozens of North Korean agents with IT jobs across American industries. When the FBI moved to take down the network, she became the target. Over the past few months, she's told me her story.
2025-07-26 View on X
The Record

A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an Arizona woman to eight and a half years in prison for running a laptop farm used …

View original
One of the wildest twists for me (spoiler): A large, publicly traded cybersecurity firm made experts available to me to explain the DPRK IT worker phenomenon. Then I found out they'd neglected to mention one fact: The firm *itself* had inadvertently employed nine North Koreans.
2025-07-26 View on X
The Record

A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an Arizona woman to eight and a half years in prison for running a laptop farm used …

View original
In 2020, Christina Chapman got a DM from a stranger on LinkedIn. What she thought was a door to a new career led instead into a web of intrigue stretching from North Korea into hundreds of American companies, including some of the most valuable on the planet.
2025-07-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a “laptop farmer”

Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un's rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon.

View original
2025-02-23
You may have seen Zizians headlines, as they entered the media and culture war maelstrom described as a “trans vegan cult” “anarchists” and AI doomers gone mad. But I can assure you, you don't know the story. Here's my best shot at it, years in the making: https://www.wired.com/...
2025-02-23 View on X
Wired

A deep look at “the Zizians”, a cult-like group of young tech people exiled from Silicon Valley's rationalist community and allegedly linked to a killing spree

A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world.  For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist …

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I spent the last 2 years on the trail of the Zizians, a group of technically gifted young people who set out to save the world. Their ideas led them down a path littered with violence and death. Along the way 6 people have been killed, 6 are jail, others have gone underground. [image]
2025-02-23 View on X
Wired

A deep look at “the Zizians”, a cult-like group of young tech people exiled from Silicon Valley's rationalist community and allegedly linked to a killing spree

A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world.  For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist …

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