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For the last few years, North Koreans have gotten remote jobs at hundreds of Western companies pretending to be from somewhere else, using fake resumes, and sometimes with the help of American collaborators.
It’s been a major problem for years, as North Korea remains highly sanctioned by the U.S. and European governments because of the regime’s banned nuclear weapons program, meaning companies are not allowed to hire North Koreans.
Over time, someone realized that there could be a way to expose possible North Koreans during the interview process: Ask the suspected impostor to insult the country’s dictator Kim Jong Un, given that insulting him is illegal in the country and can result in harsh punishments. While this is a well-known strategy, we rarely see real-life examples of it working in real time.
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I knew about North Korean hackers—they still tricked me and got into my computer
In late March, I received a troubling message from Fortune’s IT administrator. “There is a process that’s exposing a vulnerability,” he wrote, telling me that someone may be prowling around my computer. “I need to kill it.” I panicked. A file I had downloaded at 11:04 a.m. had the capacity to monitor my keyboard strokes, record my computer screen, see my passwords, and access my apps, according to logs later reviewed by Fortune’s IT department.
After shutting down my laptop, I rushed out of my Brooklyn apartment and ran to the nearest subway station. While waiting for the train to Fortune’s office, where I planned to wipe the laptop with IT’s help, I texted my editor: “I think I may have been phished by the DPRK lol.”
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