The best defensive against hiring a fake remote worker from North Korea is a good offensive question.
There are allegedly thousands of North Koreans who have successfully disguised themselves as Americans and landed remote work jobs at Fortune 500 businesses and crypto firms. And while their techniques for getting in are sophisticated, catching them apparently just requires asking one kinda crude question:
“How fat is Kim Jong Un?”
According to Adam Meyers, the Senior Vice President of Counter Adversary Operations at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, asking that question during the interview process stops the North Korean workers in their tracks. While speaking at the RSA Conference earlier this week, Meyers explained that asking a question like that will cause the prospective worker to abort. “They terminate the call instantly, because it’s not worth it to say something negative about that,” he said, according to a report from The Register.
I thought that was hilarious they were using names they couldn’t pronounce. I get that you’re stealing whatever identities you can, but maybe save that one for someone who can pronounce it or some other use that doesn’t require you to say it in real time.
Fun info but title reads like a Buzzfeed listicle from 2015
“You won’t believe number 4…”
WTF? lol
