North Korea infiltrates workers into western companies for years and now we know how they do it

North Korea infiltrates workers into western companies for years and now we know how they do it


The organization records all the phases of the workers and monitor which works can, in addition to the income they maintain and send to the regime




North Korea infiltrated remote workers with false identities in US companies. After the country has become more hostile, the attention has passed in Europe. According to the FBI, the Department of Justice and Google, the purpose of these employees is to obtain resources to finance the nuclear program of North Korea. The modus operandi was a great mystery. Until now.

A network without improvisations

A computer security researcher called Stttyk he got a database he shared with the charger Wired. The files include, according to Stttyk, “dozens of gigabytes of data” and “thousands of e -mail”. From this information, a worker structure organized in twelve groups was extracted, each with about twelve members, all under the command of a general “main leader”.

The group works using the Slack communication tool, Google account, Github and calculation sheets. In these spreadsheets, they carry out a detailed -up of work and the progress of both economic and strategic objectives.

They even collect the specific needs of the job opportunities (such as the programming languages required) by the companies that want to attack, as well as their locations, registering in case of contact with companies or progress in the process.

How do they get work

A few days ago, BBC interviewed Jin -uA false North Korean remote worker who succeeded in the desert. He said that most of his work was to acquire false identities to request …

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