Two (2) US nationals, Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince, were each sentenced to eighteen (18) months in prison for operating “laptop farms” that helped North Korean IT workers fraudulently obtain remote jobs at nearly seventy (70) American companies. Acting as facilitators, they received company issued laptops tied to stolen identities, installed unauthorized remote access tools, and allowed North Korean workers to appear as legitimate US-based employees. Companies unknowingly paid over $1.19 million in salaries to these workers, with most funds routed overseas, while remediation and auditing costs exceeded $1.5 million. Knoot and Prince must also forfeit and pay restitution totaling over $100,000. The sentences are part of a broader US crackdown on North Korea’s illicit revenue schemes, which rely on thousands of IT workers using identity theft to infiltrate Western firms. Other US “laptop farmers” have recently received prison terms, including one Arizona woman sentenced to one hundred and two (102) months for enabling North Korean workers to be hired by more than three hundred (300) US companies.