Organized North Korean Remote IT Worker Fraud Compels Organizations to Enhance Hiring Verification Controls With Next-Gen CTI
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Organized North Korean Remote IT Worker Fraud Compels Organizations to Enhance Hiring Verification Controls With Next-Gen CTI
Identity Fraud
An indictment and criminal complaint unsealed on May 16 reveal glaring, malicious-insider risks posed by remote labor and the extreme lengths to which foreign threat actors are willing to go to infiltrate U.S. corporate IT networks. These court documents allege that an Arizona woman, a Ukrainian man, and three unidentified foreign nationals participated in “schemes to place overseas information technology (IT) workers—posing as U.S. citizens and residents—in remote positions at U.S. companies,” according to a Department of Justice press release. Notably, most of the IT workers unlawfully placed in jobs at U.S. companies hail from the rogue state of North Korea.
The DOJ press release said that these schemes “involved defrauding over 300 U.S. companies using U.S. payment platforms and online job site accounts, proxy computers located in the United States, and witting and …
Identity Fraud
An indictment and criminal complaint unsealed on May 16 reveal glaring, malicious-insider risks posed by remote labor and the extreme lengths to which foreign threat actors are willing to go to infiltrate U.S. corporate IT networks. These court documents allege that an Arizona woman, a Ukrainian man, and three unidentified foreign nationals participated in “schemes to place overseas information technology (IT) workers—posing as U.S. citizens and residents—in remote positions at U.S. companies,” according to a Department of Justice press release. Notably, most of the IT workers unlawfully placed in jobs at U.S. companies hail from the rogue state of North Korea.
The DOJ press release said that these schemes “involved defrauding over 300 U.S. companies using U.S. payment platforms and online job site accounts, proxy computers located in the United States, and witting and …