You Have A Fake North Korean IT Worker Problem - Here's How To Stop It
The Register, Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another
By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don't have any phony resumes or imposters in your interview queue, you're asleep at the wheel.
"Almost every CISO of a Fortune 500 company that I've spoken to - I'll just characterize as dozens that I've spoken to - have admitted that they had a North Korean IT worker problem," said Mandiant Consulting CTO Charles Carmakal during a threat-intel roundtable, admitting that even Mandiant's parent company Google is not immune.
"We have seen this in our own pipelines," added Iain Mulholland, Google Cloud's senior director of security engineering.