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North Korea Strategy to “Infiltrate” Foreign Companies

Sep 10, 20243 min
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KnowBe4 accidentally hired a North Korean state actor who tried to install info-stealing malware on their devices. They caught it in time, but it shows how good North Korean hackers are at pretending to be IT staff. | Bill Toulas | MORE

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Security. No. Before accidentally hired a North Korean state actor who tried to install info stealing malware on their device. The craziest thing about this whole North Korea stuff and how they're like, breaking into these companies, they're not really breaking in. They're applying. They're applying to these companies and getting hired. And it really reminds me of this Key and Peele skit where the guy's like, yeah, so what we're going to do is we're going to sneak in.

I think I told this joke before, but he's like, what we're going to do is we're going to sneak in, we're going to get hired. And then when they give us work, we're going to do the work, and then they're going to deposit money in our bank accounts every two weeks. And his buddy looks at him and he goes, dude, you're talking about a fucking job. That's what a job is. And that was the end of the skit. And that's literally what these guys are doing. They are applying to jobs,

getting hired and doing the work. The trick is they just take their regular salaries. And I'm not sure what percentage is actually doing the work versus doing the work poorly versus doing the work, plus trying to hack them additionally. Not sure about that exactly. I'm not sure anyone is, but here's what I do know. They're taking the money from the salaries and putting it back into the government to use for like the missile program or whatever other

shenanigans North Korea is doing. So they're they're literally deploying it people into the world, into advanced economies to get actual jobs, to earn salaries, to put into the missile program That is trippy to me. That is completely insane.

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