FBI disrupts North Korean 'laptop farms' used to fund weapons programs

The FBI searched more than 40 Texas residences and seized 187 laptops and other devices used to help North Korean operatives obtain remote jobs at U.S. companies under false identities, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.The effort, dubbed Operation Lonestar Roundup, targeted “laptop farms” that housed employer-issued computers and allowed workers overseas to access them remotely. U.S.-based facilitators configured the devices and transferred earnings to North Korean-controlled ac