The IT worker scheme, also tracked as Nickel Tapestry, Wagemole, and UNC5267, involves North Korean actors using a mix of stolen and fictitious identities to gain employment with U.S. companies as remote IT workers with the goal of drawing a regular salary that's then funneled back to the regime through intricate cryptocurrency transactions.

US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Two indictments, one arrest, and other actions across 16 states puts a dent in the illicit remote work schemes targeting US companies.

The Treasury Department has sanctioned a North Korean cyber operative accused of running a scheme using remote IT jobs to raise money for leader Kim Jong Un's nuclear program. CBS News Homeland Security correspondent Nicole Sganga reports.

Song Kum Hyok is accused of masterminding a scheme in which North Korean cyber operatives posed as U.S. remote IT workers for unwitting companies.