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How North Korean Workers Tricked U.S. Companies into Hiring Them and Secretly Funneled Their Earnings into Weapons Programs

2023-10-20, KimZetter
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How North Korean Workers Tricked U.S. Companies into Hiring Them and Secretly Funneled Their Earnings into Weapons Programs
Thousands of IT workers allegedly working on behalf of North Korea managed to trick U.S. companies into hiring them as remote developers — then used the money to help finance North Korean weapons.
The methods they employed to hide their identities were extensive. They used fake web profiles and stolen identification documents and Social Security numbers; they paid U.S.-based workers to conduct video job interviews and web-conferencing calls on their behalf; they even convinced American workers to let them tunnel in through their laptops, WiFi networks and IP addresses to conceal their true location from the U.S. companies that hired them.
This is how remote IT workers connected to North Korea allegedly hid their identities from companies in the U.S. and elsewhere who hired them for coding and development work; and …