Google’s cybersecurity unit, Mandiant, has found dozens of US companies have accidentally hired North Korean spies using fake identities as remote workers.
Many of them hold multiple jobs and decline Zoom meetings at work to avoid detection.
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Companies outsourcing jobs to save money only to hire hackers and NK spies, jobs in the West are here to stay lmao
Google got rid of a lot of American engineers under the guise of “return to the office” and hired remote international engineers for lower salaries. This is their karma 
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this was revealed in the crypto space a long time ago lol DPRK agents have been the reason for multiple “hacks” though it’s really just basic infiltration.
This type of fake candidate/bait and switch issue is a lot more common than everyone realizes
One of the main things we have to screen and vet out from our end
Cinder flagged this over the summer - “By demonstrating sufficient technical capability and minimal English language skills, North Korean applicants can meet minimum thresholds for junior software engineer roles. Fast-growing start-ups eager to ship more products might overlook
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The more surprising thing is that they just 'declined' Zoom meetings- like, I'm good thanks
Protecting American companies from a cyber attack. Also ensuring business with other companies is safe. Is your company ready to function in the event of a cyber attack?
Managers and C-suite execs are going to see this and be like see, we need to have everyone back in the office for security reason, omitting the fine details about "declining Zoom meetings"
Very soon they can turn on the American Cat, err, Chad cam filter
Insane considering the google hiring process is four thousand interviews in two years
whilst, literal educated and experienced americans struggle to find work or always on the short end… yay
All these companies are outsourcing to other countries remotely, rather than let people in the US work remote.
Seems like North Korea just took "remote work" to a whole new level. How did no one notice?
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Russians tried this in the 00s various times, mostly with engine programmer roles but were rumbled due to comparing the code they submitted as part of the hiring process and other malicious code. The devs could tell it was the same person and checked into the background etc
The thing people aren’t understanding about this is how elaborate of a scheme this requires, there’s so many people in the comments questioning how this is happening and investigating the issue will explain everything.
People are assuming it’s Google but it’s actually many companies that are clients of GCP.
I can see that happening, especially with the push to 'lower costs' even at the loss of quality.
Shows how broken tech hiring is. NK spies apparently are getting those LinkedIn call backs.
Just give them an US work visa - they will make more as programmers than as North Korean spies.
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Google is just now figuring this out? There's been videos out there about this problem for quite a while.
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Google just sent all their workers back to the office and now all the sudden we got North Korean spies for people who didn’t?
Can I get one of those jobs? I promise I'm not a spy.
No it’s not. Decent management fixes this. Why middle management is getting cut everywhere
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I said it many times before. Main reason to go back to office is security, first and foremost. Trust, validation in person.
So what are they going to do?
So what are they going to do?
Welcome to the mole game.
In the midst of the job market being so fucking horrendous for Americans, this is all around embarrassing and aggravating smfh
This is what happens when you try to hire cheap labor ..you get what you pay for.
You wanted someone over qualified that would work for peanuts?
WTF did you expect!?!?!?!
Date, you know this is BS. If anybody cares they would ask for their cameras to be turned on or require quarterly onsite meetings.
This is propaganda created by real estate owners to force people back on the office
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That’s wtf yall get. Y’all laying off everybody who actually American for cheap Indian/korean work
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This sounds made up, theyre really trying to push RTO and further surveillance in the workplace by using these fake stories as justification.
This embarrassing now if they was hiring black ppl this wouldn’t have happened 
Least they’ll know were not spies
Least they’ll know were not spies
But we should trust Google to find "misinformation" that Dems then use to attack the GOP and Conservative outlets.
NKoreans are better at getting jobs in America than most of the idiots who live here lol
Where the hell is our FBI & DOJ? Oh wait..going after peaceful law abiding citizens is more important I guess
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Anything and everything to not train and hire black and brown Americans. Corporations rather hire North Korean spies than struggling Americans. Half of the companies knew they were spies but didn't give a fk because they were cheap and did some work.
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