North Korean IT workers are on high use of sophisticated fraud to look for work in Western software businesses. They are mostly using bogus LinkedIn profiles, phoney names, fake work papers, and mock interview scripts to get employed.
They also use scripts of long pages, as found by researchers at Palo Alto Networks, a U.S. cybersecurity firm. They discovered internal documents online that had details of North Korea’s remote IT workforce and job openings.
The online documents contained many fraudulent resumes, online profiles, interview notes, and forged identities of North Korean workers that were used to apply for jobs in software development.
There was also evidence of leaked dark web data that revealed some cyber tools and techniques used by North Korean workers to convince firms to employ them in jobs.
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