In July 2024, KnowBe4 revealed that we had unknowingly employed a North Korean who was pretending to be another person. We locked down the laptop computer that was despatched to the faux worker inside 25 minutes of receiving an alert that he was attempting to do one thing suspicious, and at no time did the North Korean have entry to buyer information or programs.
We have now since up to date our hiring processes accordingly to forestall future occurrences and checked all present staff to verify no others have been in related issues.
On July 24,2024, we publicly posted the primary of a number of articles regarding the rent. It instantly went viral leading to dozens of reports tales and a number of media consideration. So far as we all know, we’re the primary firm to ever publicly reveal the main points of the North Korean hiring and detection occasion, regardless of a number of tons of different U.S. firms having skilled related conditions prior to now. We have been applauded by many safety specialists and regulation enforcement for publicly sharing our expertise.
There are proper now, probably, tons of of North Korean faux staff presently employed by U.S. firms and certain hundreds around the globe. There are probably hundreds of U.S. firms right now receiving resumes and purposes from North Korean faux staff and a few of these candidates can be unknowingly employed.
One of the best ways to forestall unknowingly hiring a faux worker is to concentrate on it and implement wanted controls in your hiring course of to forestall it.
To assist mitigate the specter of different firms hiring North Korean or different nation-state faux staff, we publicly posted a number of associated weblog articles, two webinars, and an in depth whitepaper.
Listed here are a number of the different KnowBe4 North Korean faux worker articles beforehand posted:
Difficult North Koreans
You’ll be shocked how tough the North Korean faux staff are. They usually use stolen, however actual identities of residents within the nations they’re focusing on, in order that any background checks cross with flying colours. They make the most of AI-enhanced photos, video, and different instruments to get themselves employed. They’ve faux LinkedIn profiles, faux GitHub initiatives, and faux references prepared to provide them glowing evaluations.
They’ve tons of of native residents serving to them to keep up the fraud. They’ll purchase faux IDs, get faux driver licenses and passports, and decide up and redistribute payroll checks. They’ve native residents decide up company-sent laptops who then set them up for distant logins in a bigger “laptop computer farm”. They use VPNs to faux their location and voice-over-IP (VOIP) phone numbers to have the ability to take calls from wherever.
Some employers have mentioned that the work they churned out was adequate that had it not been unlawful to rent them, possibly they might have saved them. However most came upon the work product was poor to non-existent, and the North Korean faux worker merely collected the paycheck till they have been lastly found and terminated. Lots of of hundreds of thousands to billions of {dollars} are being “earned” and despatched again to North Korea to fund their unlawful nuclear weapons program. Who desires to be part of that?
New Webinar
We have now an upcoming webinar protecting the specter of North Korean faux staff. One covers our private story of how we unknowingly employed a North Korean worker and the way we detected and terminated them. You could find information beneath:
Register by September eleventh @ 2:00 PM ET
Created and introduced by Roger A. Grimes, Knowledge-Pushed Protection Evangelist for KnowBe4, it covers extra data on North Korean faux staff and provides extra mitigations than you will discover wherever else. There are dozens of recommendations in each detecting and stopping faux staff. It covers how one can forestall hiring a faux worker and even how one can detect one if they’re already secreted away amongst your workforce.
There are tons of, if not hundreds of energetic North Korean faux staff. Roger’s webinar will allow you to greatest forestall changing into one more firm that unknowingly employed a North Korean faux worker and allow you to replace your hiring processes, so it by no means occurs to you. You’ll not discover a higher useful resource.
Joyful hiring!