Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is Really a North Korean Hacker

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• Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, they hired someone without even having a video call?

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe they lied in the call and said they weren’t a North Korean hacker. That would be the kind of devious thing a hacker might do.

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    • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They submitted a deep fake photo and never did a call.

      To prevent a repeat, KnowBe4 is advising its peers in the industry to consider interviewing prospective employees on a video call to ensure they’re real

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    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey now, it’s even on the USA visa application:

      Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide? ☐

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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Talk about one he’ll of a security oversight for a “security firm”

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  • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you expect there to be a portrait of Kim in the background?

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably was for a high stress, high turnover position where anyone competent and breathing would do.

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  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seems weird…but I have totally done two different job interviews where nobody has their camera on.

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  • alilbee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They didn’t do one in this case, but I have heard stories of these sorts of malicious actors paying people stateside or elsewhere to take the video interviews. I’ve had to do ID checks on video in recent-ish interviews.

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And with deepfakes they could make the video call look like the person in the fake photo they sent.

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• elvith@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This reminds me of that work from home employee that just “outsourced” his own job to China from a few years ago…

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  • reddwarf@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Business outsources work the were hired to do : smart business! Employee outsources his work he was hired to do: scam!

    I hate that.

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    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah because fuck you and every single pleb.

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    • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Me too. I personally think it was brilliant.

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  • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is what would freak me out about work-from-home. If you can do your job from your living room, someone can probably also do it from China (and for a lot less money).

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• TheBigBrother@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tankies are coming for you!!

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