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North Korean remote IT worker scheme

Pattern in which North Korean nationals obtain remote IT employment at Western companies under false identities, associated with revenue generation, data theft and extortion.

Known aliases

North Korean fake IT workers

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

security2 publishers

Human instinct caught 68% of pre-hire candidate fraud in HYPR's own survey

HYPR's September 15 survey of 500 US HR executives puts average unmonitored access for a fraudulent hire at 5.73 days, and the report's own detection figures undercut its chief executive's line about human intuition.

Publishers:helpnetsecurity.cominfosecurity-magazine.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption26
Hype gap+38
Incentives84
Confidence52