“They are wildly successful,” said Google Threat Intelligence Group expert Michael Barnhart, who has been tracking North Korea and collecting intelligence broadly for decades.

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North Korean IT workers have been infiltrating Fortune 500 companies by using stolen or fake identities, funneling salaries to fund prohibited weapons programs. Despite efforts to prevent this, the scheme has generated hundreds of millions annually since 2018. Experts emphasize the importance of rigorous identity verification and ongoing security practices to combat this threat.

Thousands of North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500—and they keep getting hired for more jobs

“Say something negative about Kim Jong Un,” Leggio tells potential job candidates
I guess if North Koreans say something like this, they’ll explode :D

Regime makes money by…getting jobs. That’s actually kind of funny.

It seems like we are living and a James Bond movie. Spies and state-sponsored hackers.

Use America’s money to build defenses against America … that is some next level IQ!