“They are wildly successful,” said Google Threat Intelligence Group expert Michael Barnhart, who has been tracking North Korea and collecting intelligence broadly for decades.
“Fortune 500 companies have unwittingly hired thousands of software engineers who claim to be American developers but are actually North Korean citizens”
“moving across Europe and Asia with well-honed social engineering tactics paired with more aggressive job hunting at European defense and government companies.”
Yeah they’re not pulling Jedi mind tricks to get these jobs.