FORTUNE news story headline is very seriously concerning as well:
Thousands of North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500, and they keep getting hired
Fortune 500 companies have unwittingly hired thousands of software engineers who claim to be American developers but are actually North Korean citizens using stolen or fake identities.
Through legitimate employment, the IT workers are illegally funneling their salaries to Kim Jong Un’s regime to fund prohibited WND and ballistic missile programs that the U.S. Treasury; State Department; and FBI collectively estimate the IT workers scam has generated hundreds of millions each year since 2018.
About 95% of the résumés Harrison Leggio gets in response to job postings for his crypto startup G8keep from North Korean engineers pretending to be American. He even once interviewed a job seeker who claimed to have worked at the same Manhattan-based cryptocurrency exchange as he did, during the time he worked there.
Leggio said: "Turns out it was all a ruse. The programming languages the engineer said the company used were incorrect, and he claimed to have floated among teams rather than embedding in a single group, which wasn’t a thing there. Fortune won’t even set up an interview with a candidate who seems promising on paper unless they agree to one final step. The first time I ever did it, the person started freaking out."
The UN estimates the North Korean IT worker scam has generated $250 million to $600 million every year since 2018. As a result, cybersecurity experts of all stripes have banded together to share information about the strategies, profiles, VPNs, and signs to watch for.
But AI has emboldened the North Korean scheme, allowing the IT workers to develop scripts so they can hold down as many as six or seven jobs at a time, disguise their appearance, and even alter their voices so they don’t have an accent, or they sound like a woman instead of a man.
Experts predict the scope and scale will expand in 2025, moving across Europe and Asia with well-honed social engineering tactics paired with more aggressive job hunting at European defense and government companies.
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My 2 Cents: This is precisely how North Korea acts and has for decades in order to make millions of U.S. dollars and convert and use that
money to produce weapons then sell them to make even more money for their allies wordwide. It's rather routine and SOP for them, and as
not in the FORTUNE article, they are good at it, too.
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