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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted the Famous Chollima threat group’s operations by arresting two suspects, charging 14 individuals, and seizing nearly 187 laptops used in North Korean remote IT worker schemes.
BleepingComputer
The latest operation targeted “laptop farms” across Texas that allegedly aided North Korea’s moneymaking plots.
Cybersecurity Dive
An OpenAI engineer has been arrested after a hidden recording device was discovered in a conference room used for sensitive discussions about the company’s AI technology. Investigators say the suspect researched how to build and conceal the device using an AI chatbot. The FBI have arrested OpenAI engineer for allegedly installing a sophisticated listening device…
Bitdefender
Investigators stormed 40 locations in Texas and seized 187 laptops used by North Korean IT workers to hide their location.
SecurityWeek
FBI alleges covert recorder was plugged into a TV, with a second device later discovered in the employee’s bag…
The Register
A recording device wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco office has led to the arrest of one of the company’s engineers. Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national who had worked at OpenAI as an engineer since July 2025, was arrested…
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A Saudi National and employee of OpenAI has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco offices to covertly record sensitive conversations. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, has been charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications.…
The Hacker News
Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested Friday and terminated by OpenAI.
SecurityWeek
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national working as an engineer for OpenAI, was charged Tuesday with secretly bugging an executive conference room at one of the company’s buildings in San Francisco.
The Record
A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations.
BleepingComputer
It’s not clear exactly for what purpose the recording device was used, but FBI director Kash Patel said the scheme was to “capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology.”
TechCrunch
More than 40 residences in Texas were the target of a federal operation in September to clamp down on remote worker scams that feed money back to the North Korean regime.
The Record