North Korea stole your work

Even security experts can be deceived. In July 2024, KNOWBE4, a Florida -based company that provides security training, discovered that the new employment known as “Kyle” was already a foreign agent. “I have met a great interview,” says Brian Jack, chief information security official at KNOWBE4. “He was on the camera, his autobiography was right, wiped his background examination, and wiped his identity. But when the United States-based facilitator, who gives him a cover, was stripped to install harmful programs on Kyle’s computer, the safety team closed and closed.

Once again in London, Simon Wijkmanan could not give up the idea that someone tried to deceive him. He has just read about the Knowbe4 case, whose suspicion deepens. He conducted tests in the background and discovered that some candidates were definitely using stolen identities. It was found that some of them are linked to the well -known North Korean operations. So Wijckmans decided to launch a small counter -exercise on its own, and called me to monitor.

I ask Google Meet at three in the morning Pacific time, tiring and bery. We chose this early watch because it is 6 am in Miami, where the candidate, “Harry”, is called.

Harry joins the call, and looks new face. It may be in the late twenties, with straight, black hair. It seems that everything about him intentionally is not specified: he is wearing an ordinary black crew jacket and talks to headphones outside the brand. “I woke up early today to this interview, there is no problem,” he says. “I know that working with UK hours is a requirement, so I can get your working hours, so there is no problem with it.”

To date, everything matches the distinctive features of a fake factor. Harry’s virtual background is one of the default options provided by Google Meet, and its contact is slow. His English is good but very teacher, although he tells us that he was born in New York and grew up in Brooklyn. Wijckmans begins with some typical interview questions, and Harry continues to take a look at his right as he responds. He talks about the different coding languages ​​and the prices of names that he knows. Wijckmans begins to ask some deeper technical questions. Harry stops. It looks confused. “Can I join the meeting?” He asks. “I have a problem with my microphone.” Wijckman gestures, Harry disappears.

A few minutes pass, and I started anxious that we were afraid of him, but then, he returned to the meeting. His relationship is not much better, but his answers are more clear. Perhaps he restarted Chatbot, or got a workshop for training. The call works another few minutes and say goodbye.

The next applicant calls himself “NIC”. In his autobiography, he got a link for a personal website, but this man is not very similar to the profile image on the site. This is his second interview with Wijckmans, and we are sure that he is fake: he is one of the applicants who failed to examine the background after his first call, although he does not know that.

The English language for Nic is worse than Harry: When asked about time, he tells us that he is “six and past” before correcting himself and saying “quarter to seven.” Where does he live? “I am in Ohio now,” embraces, like a child getting something in the pop competition.