https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-weapons-program-it-workers-f3df7c120522b0581db5c0b9682ebc9b
Court documents allege that the government of North Korea dispatched thousands of skilled IT workers to live primarily in China and Russia with the goal of deceiving businesses from the U.S. and elsewhere into hiring them as freelance remote employees.
Glad to help. Truth be told, I got the links myself from someone either on hexbear or lemmygrad. And the info might help get through to your colleague, sometimes the "right sources," like from characters in their precious ACU, actually can make an impact.