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Coinbase CEO says he's mandating in-person orientation to combat North Korean hackers seeking remote jobs
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the "remote-first" company has had to adjust some policies to combat cybercrime.
Armstrong said that North Korean IT workers have tried to leverage the company's remote work policy to gain employment and then access to the crypto exchange's sensitive systems. Last month, the FBI put out an updated warning about North Korean IT workers who target private companies "to illicitly generate substantial revenue for the regime." "It feels like proof of physical presence is going to be become a bigger deal in a world of AI, deepfakes, just higher stakes for all this kind of cyber crime stuff where in a weird way you see certain areas where remote work goes backwards," Collison said.
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