I read a recent Google Intelligence Report which highlighted a case uncovered last year involving a single North Korean worker deploying at least 12 personae across Europe and the US. The IT worker was seeking jobs within the defense industry and government sectors. Using this new tactic, bogus IT professionals have been threatening to release sensitive company data that they have exfiltrated before being fired.
According to the report, North Korea has now turned to Europe, and the UK, after it became more difficult to implement its fake worker ploy in the US. As a result, companies are being urged to carry out job interviews for IT workers on video, or better still in-person, to head off the risk of giving jobs to fake North Korean employees.
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