Japan has dismantled the first North Korean laptop farm, according to SecurityWeek. The move comes as the US, Japan, Germany and Australia published a joint report detailing the scope of North Korea's WaterPlum campaign.
The report describes WaterPlum as a wider scheme, and the four nations' publication is meant to lay out its full extent. SecurityWeek does not provide exact figures on the laptop farm's size or staffing, but it identifies this as the first such dismantling.
The coordinated actions—the shutdown and the report—signal growing international attention to North Korean remote IT operations. The joint report and the Japanese operation are presented as parallel efforts to counter the same threat.