With the arrival of AI, some businesses have been overwhelmed with applications from suspected North Korean operatives.Last year, employees at Cinder, a tech startup that provides content moderation software and is led by former intelligence officials, began to notice strange anomalies in the thousands of job applications it received.
Cinder is one of thousands of companies that have been inundated by remote IT workers assisting North Korea, a country designated by the U.S. as providing support for acts of international terrorism. The threat accelerated alongside the rise of remote work in 2020, but a string of recent arrests and disclosures by companies like Cinder have brought new attention to the issue.
Experts and law enforcement officials believe the North Korean scheme is being carried out by networks who target remote IT roles and use U.S.-based laptop farms to hide their true location. One telltale sign of the scheme is workers requesting company property like laptops being sent to an address that is different from that listed on their resume, according to Seth Arthur, who has monitored the issue at open source intelligence firm Nisos.
that some North Korean IT workers are making as much as $300,000 a year each, generating “hundreds of millions of dollars” for the DPRK regime, including funds for its weapons of mass destruction program.an initiative in March to tackle the problem, and recent arrests have highlighted the extent of the fraud. In May, the FBI detained an Arizona woman who allegedly acted as the U.S. front of a scheme that used the stolen identities of more than 60 U.S. citizens to gain employment at 300 U.S.
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