Deep Tide TechFlow news, on July 4, according to Fortune, Microsoft's threat intelligence department has suspended 3,000 Outlook and Hotmail accounts created by North Korean IT workers to combat this global fraud scheme. Microsoft calls the scheme 'Jasper Sleet,' and these North Korean IT workers use false or stolen identities to obtain remote work at global tech companies, generating up to $600 million a year for the North Korean regime to fund its nuclear weapons program.
The U.S. Department of Justice simultaneously announced a crackdown on the scheme, seizing hundreds of laptops, 29 financial accounts, and shutting down nearly twenty websites. Microsoft stated that these fraudsters are increasingly using artificial intelligence to improve strategies, including eliminating grammatical errors, beautifying photos, and experimenting with voice transformation software. Microsoft has developed machine learning solutions to identify suspicious accounts, particularly detecting the 'impossible time travel' risk between Western countries and China or Russia.