Amazon 'blocked' North Koreans from applying for jobs
Cape Times
|December 24, 2025
US TECH giant Amazon said it has blocked over 1 800 North Koreans from joining the company, as Pyongyang sends large numbers of IT workers overseas to earn and launder funds.
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In a post on LinkedIn, Amazon's chief security officer Stephen Schmidt said last week that North Korean workers had been “attempting to secure remote IT jobs with companies worldwide, particularly in the US”.
He said the firm had seen nearly a one-third rise in applications by North Koreans in the past year.
The North Koreans typically use “laptop farms” - a computer in the US operated remotely from outside the country, he said.
He warned the problem wasn't specific to Amazon and “is likely happening at scale across the industry”.
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