PANews reported on April 25 that according to Reuters, the cybersecurity company Silent Push revealed that members of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus set up two companies in the United States, Blocknovas LLC and Softglide LLC, registered with false identities, and used them to deliver malware to encryption developers through fake recruitment information. The FBI has closed down the Blocknovas website and said that this action violated the US Treasury Department's OFAC and the United Nations sanctions against North Korea.