Is your colleague who you think they are? Threat actors from North Korea (NK) are infiltrating companies by combining sophisticated deepfakes with stolen identities of real American citizens.
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This isn’t just a few individual bad actors; it’s a sophisticated, industrial-scale, state-sponsored threat that’s been simmering for the last two years and has now reached full boil. And like a frog in a pot, organizations are waking up to the potentially catastrophic risks of inaction. A 2024 Securonix survey found that concern about “malicious insiders” rose from 60% in 2019 to 74% in 2024, and 90% of companies believe insider attacks are “equally or more challenging to detect than external attacks.” The reason for this increase is clear when we look at a timeline of North Korean IT worker threat activity, which has been rapidly accelerating:
- May 2022: The FBI warnsof attempts by North Korean IT workers to gain employment by posing as non-NK nationals, with …