{"id":10833,"date":"2026-02-21T07:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/ukrainian-national-sentenced-to-5-years-html\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:03:37","slug":"ukrainian-national-sentenced-to-5-years-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/ukrainian-national-sentenced-to-5-years-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian National Sentenced to 5 Years in North Korea IT Worker Fraud Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Ukrainian National Sentenced to 5 Years in North Korea IT Worker Fraud Case<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for his role in facilitating North Korea&#8217;s fraudulent information technology (IT) worker scheme.<br \/>\nIn November 2025, Oleksandr &#8220;Alexander&#8221; Didenko pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft for stealing the identities of U.S. citizens and selling them to IT workers to help them land<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/ukrainian-national-sentenced-to-5-years.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian National Sentenced to 5 Years in North Korea IT Worker Fraud Case A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for his role in facilitating North Korea&#8217;s fraudulent information technology (IT) worker scheme. In November 2025, Oleksandr &#8220;Alexander&#8221; Didenko pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-10833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}