While the number of cyber attacks all over the world has increased tremendously in the last two years, companies and governments continue to take various measures to defend themselves from these attacks. These measures are not only achieved by increasing the security of the systems. The trust of the companies in their employees is also one of the measures taken.
Here is an important and interesting warning to companies from the authorities in the United States of America today. In the statement shared directly by the FBI, companies were warned not to recruit ‘North Korean hackers’ to their information technology departments. The FBI’s statement was also a general warning for remote IT workers.
They use remote job applications as an opportunity:
The FBI stated that there are information technology workers currently in North Korea serving other countries. The institution reported that these employees use remote job applications as an advantage, especially in North America, Europe and South Asia.
They may be the door to crimes such as data theft:
However, the FBI, saying that North Korean employees show themselves from South Korea, Japan or other Asian countries, also presented the reason for making such a statement. The FBI noted that employees can harm the places they work in many ways, from data theft to reputational damage.
In the same text, it was stated that most of the employees were able to earn foreign currency or access virtual exchanges, while some of them helped the North Korean government with hacking operations.
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