PANews reported on September 25 that Replit CEO wrote that North Korean IT remote workers (ITW) use AI tools to obtain remote jobs in the United States to generate income for North Korea, and they have earned hundreds of millions of dollars.

In response, ZachXBT, an on-chain detective, stated that North Korean IT remote workers were involved in at least 25 hacking attacks or extortion attacks against companies in the crypto industry. All of the victims were crypto companies.