The 11 member states of a multilateral initiative monitoring DPRK sanctions evasion issued a joint alert for the first time on Friday about North Korean information technology (IT) workers’ illicit revenue generation activities.

The advisory — issued by the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the U.K. — highlighted Pyongyang’s continued reliance on a global network of skilled IT workers who obtain remote jobs under false identities to help fund Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

It also warned that the workers pose insider threats to companies by engaging in the