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We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job
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This meant putting them through multiple rounds of technical infosec tests and verification tasks, designed to extract key details about their identity and tactics. Between standard interview questions, our team slipped in two-factor authentication prompts, such as asking the candidate to verify their location, hold up a government-issued ID, and even recommend some local restaurants in the city they claimed to be in. Flustered and caught off guard, they struggled with the basic verification tests, and couldn’t convincingly answer real-time questions about their city of residence or country of citizenship.
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