In July, a Clearwater, Florida, cybersecurity firm called KnowBe4 hired a man named “Kyle,” but it turned out that the photo he posted on his LinkedIn account was an AI-altered stock photo. The company sent a work laptop to the address “Kyle” provided, which was in fact that of a US-based employee. The “employee” attempted to deploy malware on the company’s networks on his first day, but was caught and fired.
“He was open about his strengths and weaknesses, things he still needed to learn and ideas about his career path,” said Stu Sjouwerman, founder and CEO of KnowBe4. The Wall Street Journal“This guy was a professional interviewee who had probably done this hundreds of times.”
What the hiring of North Korean agents says about hiring in the United States
Statistically, it is unlikely that you or your company would hire North Korean agents. But knowing that this can happen should raise questions about your corporate hiring practices and systems. Are they so inadequate that you could hire and employ someone who is not who they say they are, who does not have the experience they say they have, who does not live where they say they live, or who is illegal to hire?