Ihr Lieblings neuer Mitarbeiter ist ein AI-verstärkter Operativ aus Nordkorea

From his résumé, Thomas from Tennessee looked perfect. A programmer for eight years—and he’d breezed through a coding test. In reality, Thomas is a North Korean IT worker, one of many deployed to work remotely for US companies in a global cybercrime op to bankroll the North Korean government.

How are North Korean IT workers being embedded under false identities into Western companies? With friends on the ground, of course. This includes a Minnesota woman who worked as a “facilitator” for hundreds of North Korea–linked jobs. She signed fraudulent docs and wired paychecks overseas.

Investigators say the Minnesota woman was housing several dozen laptops that had software installed to allow the fake workers to control it remotely. Each had a sticky note with the fake worker’s identity and employer. The „laptop farm“ was the most important task for a facilitator to manage. This case is just one of several North Korean fake-worker prosecutions making their way through US courts.

For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. Now, with AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.

Read more: [https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-stole-your-tech-job-ai-interviews/](https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-stole-your-tech-job-ai-interviews/)