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The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

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By Iain Thomson

Concerned a new recruit might be a North Korean stooge out to steal intellectual property and then hit an org with malware? There is an answer, for the moment at least.

According to Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior veep in the counter adversary division, North Korean infiltrators are bagging roles worldwide throughout the year. Thousands are said to have infiltrated the Fortune 500.

They’re masking IPs, exporting laptop farms to America so they can connect into those machines and appear to be working from the USA, and they are using AI – but there’s a question during job interviews that never fails to catch them out and forces them to drop out of the recruitment process.

Read more at The Register

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