Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is Really a North Korean Hacker
Submitted 1 month ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.pcmag.com/news/security-firm-discovers-remote-worker-is-really-a-north-korean-hacker
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elvith@feddit.org 1 month ago
reddwarf@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Business outsources work the were hired to do : smart business! Employee outsources his work he was hired to do: scam!
I hate that.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah because fuck you and every single pleb.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Me too. I personally think it was brilliant.
Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 1 month 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).
TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Tankies are coming for you!!
Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Wait, they hired someone without even having a video call?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month 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.
Shadow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
They submitted a deep fake photo and never did a call.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 month 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? ☐
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Talk about one he’ll of a security oversight for a “security firm”
AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 month ago
Did you expect there to be a portrait of Kim in the background?
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Probably was for a high stress, high turnover position where anyone competent and breathing would do.
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Seems weird…but I have totally done two different job interviews where nobody has their camera on.
alilbee@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And with deepfakes they could make the video call look like the person in the fake photo they sent.