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New, by me: I wrote ~3,700 of my finest words on North Korea's remote IT workers, who have infiltrated businesses across the U.S. and Europe and aren't slowing down. Probably the most pervasive cyber threats today.
Here's my primer on how to recognize & combat them. https://this.weekinsecurity.com/thousands-of-north-koreans-have-secretly-infiltrated-us-and-european-companies-as-remote-it-workers
@zackwhittaker Years ago (first dot com boom) my aunt was a director at a well know retail financial brokerage firm.
She decided not to renew a contractor's contract. Russian guy. When she informed him, he blew up at her. She had to call security as he was threatening violence.
Turns out, once they went through his computer, he was probably Russian mafia and was using the company to launder money somehow. Had info on how to hide bodies on his work computer.
@zackwhittaker Cyber security threat: agents of an irrational rogue state bent on destruction using wildly illegal methods to infiltrate organisations in order to steal their data, siphon their money, and expose all their stakeholders to further extortion.
@zackwhittaker good sticker reference(s)
@cjust glad you enjoyed :)
@zackwhittaker Now that the US has essentially aligned its political system with that of North Korea, an exchange between disenfranchised populations is quite charming 🥹
When I recently told an executive about the North Korean remote workers' scheme at a cocktail hour, he almost shit his pants.
Known as a triple threat, North Koreans gain real jobs at Western firms, earn a wage, then steal data and extort them when they get caught. All to make the regime money for nuclear weapons.
This article includes how the scheme works, why it's effective, and what companies large and small can do to identify suspicious applicants.
Please share!
@zackwhittaker praying for the success of those North Korean remote workers 🙏🏻🇰🇵🫡
What I would love to see is an analysis of how the NK worker/spies actually get these jobs, because I've got lots of qualified friends who have been unemployed for months.
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