This week, the @FBI and DOJ announced coordinated actions in Ohio and Texas to counter the North Korean IT worker threat. The effort included raids on suspected “laptop farms” and resulted in charges, arrests, and the seizure of nearly 190 devices. Brett Leatherman, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, sat down with CrowdStrike’s Adam Meyers to examine the broader threat behind these actions. They discussed North Korea’s ongoing efforts to infiltrate American companies through remote IT workers and how the FBI and industry are working together to combat the threat. These recent actions, like many of the FBI’s most significant cyber operations, were made possible by intelligence and technical expertise from industry partners. The FBI is strengthening these partnerships to “move upstream” against cyber threat actors. That means going beyond responding to individual incidents to proactively target the command-and-control infrastructure, tools, and criminal ecosystems that enable their activity.