North Korean spies posing as remote workers have infiltrated hundreds of companies, says CrowdStrike

Researchers at Security Giant Crowdstrike say they have seen hundreds of cases where North Koreans have infiltrated remote IT workers to earn money for this government, which have identified a sharp increase in the previous years.

Toward The latest threat of Croudstrike is the victim’s reportThe company has identified more than 320 incidents over the past 12 months, which has increased by 220% since the previous year, where North Koreans have acquired fraud employment in Western agencies.

This scheme depends on the North Koreans to earn employment using false identity, restart and work history, and to earn money for the government, as well as workers to steal data from the agencies that work for and quote them later. The goal is to generate funding for North Korea -approved nuclear weapons program, which has been made up so far Billion dollars for rule To today

It is not known how many IT workers in North Korea are currently working for US companies, but some have estimated that the number is thousands.

According to Croudstrike, North Korea’s IT Workers, which the company uses the hacking groups, called “famous Cholima”, re-drawing and modifying their presence during a remote interview depending on AI and other AI-driven equipment.

While The scheme is not newNorth Koreans are achieving growing success in getting jobs despite the law of preventing US companies from hiring North Korean workers.

Croudstrike said in his report that one of the ways to prevent recruitment in recruitment is to implement better identity verification process at the appointment stage. TechCrunch has heard of some crypto-centric companies that some crypto-centric companies have heard of potential staff to talk about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in an attempt to spread the weeds of potential spies. North Korean employees are often highly monitored and surveyed, making any such request impossible and perhaps fraudulent workers are out.

In the past one year, the US judiciary has tried to disrupt these operations by following the US -based convenient Run and Manage the Scheme For their North Korean authorities. These operations have been included “Laptop Farm” to target persons to run the operationIn which the North Koreans include open laptop racks used to do their job as they are physically located in the United States.

Prosecutors In a June complaint That North Korea’s operation has stolen the identity of 80 people between 2021 and 2024 to get remote work in the United States over 100 in the United States.