Your New Hire May Be a North Korean Spy
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North Korean cybercriminals have developed a new way to access networks in corporate America: getting IT jobs. According to U.S. officials, hundreds of U.S. companies have unknowingly hired North Korean operatives in information-technology roles. Dustin Volz explores how these spies get hired, and one CEO describes how his company fell for the scheme.
Further Listening:
- How North Korea’s Hacker Army Stole $3 Billion in Crypto
- North Korea’s Propaganda Mastermind
- The Cyberattack That’s Roiling Healthcare
Further Reading:
- North Korean Spies Are Infiltrating U.S. Companies Through IT Jobs
- Kim Jong Un Wants to Block All North Koreans From Escaping. It Isn’t Working.
- A North Korean Diplomat Managed a Rare Defection: A Flight Out of Cuba
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This has me incensed. Especially when you consider how many well trained and educated AMERICANS can't even get interviews let alone six-figure jobs! they could have taken the money they used to pay just three of these people in North Korea and set up a training program and some place in Appalachia where kids are coming out of high school into towns that have very few jobs outside of the fossil fuel industry, Food service and retail. You could have given these trainees the opportunity to work for