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How one American woman funneled $17 million to North Korea

In recent years, thousands of North Korean IT workers have used stolen and made-up US identities to pose as Western ...

Fraudulent Candidates, Fake Interviews And AI: The New Hiring Crisis

As AI evolves faster than our policies, ethics and hiring infrastructure can keep up, I believe candidate fraud is likely to ...

Remote IT worker scam involving 90 laptops and stolen identities generated $17 million in illicit revenue allegedly bound for North Korea's nuclear weapons program

However you feel about hybrid or remote working, it's clear that the option to work from home offers many more opportunities ...
CSO Online5d

How not to hire a North Korean IT spy

CISOs are urged to carry out tighter vetting of new hires to ward off potential ‘moles’ — who are increasingly finding their ...
Colorado County Citizen5d

Arizona woman sentenced for $17M information technology worker fraud scheme

An Arizona woman was sentenced today to 102 months in prison for her role in a fraudulent scheme that assisted North Korean ...
National Business Review6d

Cyber crime and warfare is the new Cold War

ANALYSIS: The FBI has opened its first office in New Zealand as cyber warfare ramps up around the world. Many IT ...

North Korean Hackers Are Using AI to Get Jobs at U.S. Companies and Steal Data

In late July, an Arizona woman, Christina Chapman, was sentenced to eight years in prison for her role in assisting North Korean workers in securing jobs at more than 300 U.S. companies; that ...

North Korean IT worker infiltrations exploded 220% over the past 12 months, with gen AI weaponized at every stage of the hiring process

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike red-flags a new North Korean software development hire to clients about once a day.

Inside North Korea’s effort to infiltrate US companies

Thousands of North Korean IT workers are using stolen and made-up US identities to make hundreds of millions of dollars a ...