Comment on North Korean hacker got hired by US security vendor, immediately loaded malware
Imhotep@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Even though the photo provided to HR was fake, the person who was interviewed for the job apparently looked enough like it to pass.
why not send an actual picture of his face?
Philippe23@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
My guess would be that they needed to get a mid-point between existing photos of the guy whose identity they stole and the guy that would show up in the video interviews.
boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Very unlikely, If you read and refer to the article. The identity was stolen but the pic is a stock photo.
Philippe23@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
My thought on that is that they needed a new location so their image didn’t just look like a modified version of another of the victim’s public images, so NK searched for a stock photo for the professional looking location. Ars has just located the stock image they started from.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Why not just take a new one at a professional looking location in NK?