North Korean threat actors are expanding their remote employment fraud schemes beyond the IT sector into healthcare, sales, and marketing roles.
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Huntress
1 quote“DPRK workers present a unique detection challenge for defenders: rather than compromising accounts or breaking in via gaps in the organizations' environments, they're tricking companies into remotely hiring them, and oftentimes actually doing the legitimate work they were hired to do”
Recorded Future
1 quote“During job interviews, they used screen recording software alongside AI transcription and chatbot tools to generate real-time answers, often repeating ChatGPT responses verbatim”
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