Ethereum Foundation-funded project Ketman identifies 100 North Korean IT personnel

According to Cointelegraph, the Ethereum Foundation stated that its funded Ketman project identified 100 North Korean IT personnel operating covertly within Web3 organizations over a six-month period and issued warnings to approximately 53 projects indicating they may have hired such individuals. The project focuses on the issue of “fraudulent developers” in the crypto industry and is part of the ETH Rangers Public Safety Grant Program. Ketman has also developed an open-source detection tool for identifying suspicious GitHub activity and collaborated with the Security Alliance to co-develop an industry-wide identification framework for detecting North Korean IT personnel.