North Koreans still working hard to take your IT job: ‘Any organization is a target’

What are the chances your company accidentally hired a North Korean hacker? At the RSAC Conference in San Francisco, the FBI and security experts warned that the threat is widespread, despite ongoing efforts to crack down.

“In the last 90 days, we’ve seen over 90 incidents. So you’re looking at about one per day,” said Adam Meyers, Head of Country Adversary Operations at cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike. “Those are high-paying developer jobs, [so] you’re seeing millions of dollars” flowing to the North Korean regime.

Microsoft security analyst Greg Schloemer echoed that warning. “We continue to see a real high volume of this activity,” he said, despite the FBI and cybersecurity community becoming more vocal about the problem.

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