FBI says North Korea deployed thousands of IT workers to get remote jobs in US with fake IDs

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• ZeroCool@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  North Koreans are using fake IDs and learning IT skills to sneak their way into remote American jobs, according to the FBI and Justice departments.

  CEOs on Monday be like: “Okay we need everyone to return to the office full time… It’s for national security.”

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only good argument I’ve heard so far.

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    • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d show up just to prove I’m real.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll happily pop in for a quarterly party to prove that I’m not zooming in from NK.

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    • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is the Dropbox model, apparently.

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• SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does no-one check the damn IDs, ffs? It’s a simple matter of typing some numbers into a computer.

  I don’t know about the U.S. but in the UK where I’m from, “illegally hiring a non-UK citizen” would be a criminal offence for the hiring company. How are they going to tax them?

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A good chunk of the American economy is dependent on companies not checking the legal status of employees.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Another good way to fuck over the legitimate workers

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I get cash jobs like manual labor / agriculture, but where are these companies depositing these paychecks?

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  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    From the summary posted below, it seems the US companies are outsourcing to China and Russia, and North Koreans living in those countries are getting these jobs. I’m guessing a part of whatever they send home is being taken, probably without their consent, by the NK government for weapon manufacturing.

    It would be hard for a US company to verify if a document presented as a Chinese or Russian ID is actually from those countries or a forgery. You could ask for a passport, but they could always say they don’t have one.

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    • victoitor@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Holy smokes!! Part of their taxes are invested in their military???

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    • SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t the ID need to be associated with a verifiable green card? (Again, not an expert in US employment)

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• cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  US companies should not be able to outsource labor overseas.

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  • Perhyte@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    According to the article, the companies didn’t know that’s what they were doing in this case. They thought they were hiring people living in the US:

    Greenberg said the workers used various techniques to make it look like they were working in the US, including paying Americans to use their home Wi-Fi connections.

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• coffinwood@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man, Mark Zuckerberg’s gotten old.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Thousands of information technology workers contracting with US companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI and Department of Justice officials said.

  Court documents allege that the government of North Korea dispatched thousands of skilled IT workers to live primarily in China and Russia with the goal of deceiving businesses from the US and elsewhere into hiring them as freelance remote employees.

  The Justice Department in recent years has sought to expose and disrupt a broad variety of criminal schemes aimed at bolstering the North Korean regime, including its nuclear weapons program.

  Two years ago, the Justice Department charged three North Korean computer programmers and members of the government’s military intelligence agency with a broad range of global hacks that officials say were carried out at the behest of the regime.

  Law enforcement officials said at the time that the prosecution highlighted the profit-driven motive behind North Korea’s criminal hacking, a contrast from other adversarial nations like Russia, China, and Iran that are generally more interested in espionage, intellectual property theft or even disrupting democracy.

  The panel of experts said in a report that the hackers used increasingly sophisticated techniques to gain access to digital networks involved in cyber finance and to steal information that could be useful in North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs from governments, individuals, and companies.

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ok, just so we’re clear… The entire “scheme” was to get jobs working remotely in the US. And then doing those jobs adequately, and collecting a paycheck?

  Truly deprived… I hope they catch every one of these monsters.

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• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you have any launch cooooooodes?

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