More than 1,800 employment applications from alleged North Korean operatives have been banned by the US computer giant, according to a senior Amazon executive. According to a LinkedIn post by Stephen Schmidt, chief security officer at Amazon, North Koreans attempted to apply for remote IT positions using stolen or fraudulent identities.
They usually have a simple goal: get hired, get paid, and use their earnings to finance the regime’s weapons programs,” he said, adding that this tendency is probably occurring on a large scale throughout the industry, particularly in the US.
Authorities in South Korea and the United States have issued warnings about North Korean agents engaging in online fraud. According to Mr. Schmidt’s tweet, North Koreans have applied for jobs at Amazon at a rate of more than one-third over the past year.
According to him, the agents usually collaborate with those in charge of “laptop farms,” that is, US-based computers that are operated remotely from outside the US. According to him, the company screened employment applications using a combination of personnel verification and artificial intelligence (AI) methods. According to Mr. Schmidt, these scammers now employ increasingly complex tactics.
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