FBI raids laptop farms, Meta loses GitHub data, Cisco gateways under attack

FBI raids laptop farms, Meta loses GitHub data, Cisco gateways under attack

By LinkedInEditors
Publication Date: 2026-10-15 13:45:00

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In todays cybersecurity news…

FBI shuts down North Korean laptop farms

The FBI searched 40 Texas homes and seized about 187 laptops used by North Korean remote IT workers to access employer computers while appearing US-based.
CrowdStrike
, which tracks the operation as Famous Chollima, helped investigators. A separate Ohio indictment charges 14 people in a scheme prosecutors say hit over 70 US companies and generated roughly $3 million, with two Americans already arrested. Workers allegedly used stolen or fabricated identities, while US facilitators hosted laptops and forwarded earnings.

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