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Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report
It’s difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder.
Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently who discovered that they unknowingly hired N.Koreans using fake identities for remote IT roles
report published Monday by the company’s Mandiant unit, researchers describe a common scheme orchestrated by the group it tracks as UNC5267
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/mitigating-dprk-it-worker-threat
The remote workers “often gain elevated access to modify code and administer network systems,” Mandiant found, warning of the downstream effects of allowing malicious actors into a company’s inner sanctum.
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https://therecord.media/major-us-companies-unwittingly-hire-north-korean-remote-it-workers