What Nicole Perlroth has said about North Korean remote IT worker scheme
1 quote · 1 episode · Jun 9, 2026
Nicole Perlroth, Former New York Times lead cybersecurity reporter, author of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends, and host of To Catch a Thief, has been quoted on North Korean remote IT worker scheme once in 1 episode of To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll, most recently on June 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Perlroth says a Treasury report found the regime withholds 90% of each worker's salary and a UN panel estimated about half a billion dollars a year from IT workers.
“A treasury report found that the regime withholds 90% of each worker's salary”
To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll: Ep. 1: Strange Things Are Happening (Jun 9, 2026) · Listen from 50:32
Episodes
Ep. 1: Strange Things Are HappeningTo Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll · Jun 9, 2026 · 54 min
Nicole Perlroth and cybersecurity experts trace how North Korean operatives secured remote IT jobs at U.S. companies to fund the regime's weapons programs.
Others on North Korean remote IT worker scheme
- Michael Barnhart · 2 quotes
- Andrew Scott · 1 quote
- Steve Stone · 1 quote
- Charles Carmichael · 1 quote
- Nick Carlson · 1 quote
- Adam Meyers · 1 quote