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How Not To Hire a North Korean IT Spy
CSO Online reports that North Korea "is actively infiltrating Western companies using skilled IT workers who use fake identities to pose as remote workers with foreign companies, typically but not exclusively in the U.S." Slashdot reader snydeq shares their report, which urges information secu...
The schemes are part of illicit revenue generation efforts by the North Korean regime, which faces financial sanctions over its nuclear weapons program, as well as a component of the country's cyberespionage activities. Thosands of highly skilled IT workers are taking advantage of the demand for software developers to obtain freelance contracts from clients around the world, including in North America, Europe, and East Asia. Mandiant, the Google-owned threat intel firm, reported last year that " thousands of highly skilled IT workers from North Korea" are hunting work.
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