North Korean agents using AI to trick western firms into hiring them, Microsoft says - AOS for Lemmy.World - A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use.

It's official, most companies would rather hire north Korean spies than me

uncritical support for stealing corporate data

And just like a gang the leaders are rich and the foot soldiers barely make enough to survive.

Between 2020 and 2022, the US government found that over 300 US companies in multiple industries, including several Fortune 500 companies, had unknowingly employed these workers, indicating the magnitude of this threat.

So AI's just making some things easier now.

North Korean remote IT workers require assistance from a witting facilitator to help find jobs, pass the employment verification process, and once hired, successfully work remotely. - Microsoft

I was gonna say... how do they deal with the HR paperwork and getting paid? They need Americans or at least people from other countries to help.

All the AI in the world won’t matter as long as they keep hammering the chumps running the laptop farms

Still better than microsoft support channels thosp ill take it.!

goddamn i really hope they used copilot to do this 🤣