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- News · Oct 13, 2026DOJ charges 14 and shuts 40 laptop farms in North Korean IT worker identity scheme
The Justice Department charged 14 people, including aggravated identity theft, and seized about 187 computers and KVM devices after dismantling more than 40 Texas laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US employees at more than 70 companies.
- News · Sep 1, 2026A service sold 153 million driver's licenses scraped from an identity verification vendor
Nexus, advertised on a Russian cybercrime forum, sold access to more than 153 million US and Canadian driver's licenses that its operators say they exfiltrated from IDScan.net over more than a year. The FBI opened an investigation.
- Analysis · Jun 23, 2026How to vet a national digital ID before you build KYC on it
Not every national ID is equally trustworthy or equally easy to verify. A practical seven-point checklist for evaluating a country's digital ID before you wire it into onboarding, with the references to do it fast.