Talented North Korean coders and developers have, for years, been getting hired for remote jobs at Western tech firms . Thousands of these so-called IT workers have earned billions for North Korea’s authoritarian regime by developing apps, working on cryptocurrency projects, and infiltrating Fortune 500 companies—when they get paid, they send their earnings home . But the scale and scope of these fraudulent job schemes likely extends beyond most people’s understanding.

New analysis of exposed online accounts and files linked to suspected Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) digital laborers shows that at least one group has been working in a very different field: architecture and civil engineering. Over recent years, the cluster of workers has been masquerading as freelance

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