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North Korean hacker got hired by US security vendor, immediately loaded malware (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Philippe23@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

My thought on that is that they needed a new location so their image didn't just look like a modified version of another of the victim's public images, so NK searched for a stock photo for a professional looking location. Ars has just located the stock image they started from.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why not just take a new one at a professional looking location in NK?

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

The last photographer starved to death and the guy who imported cameras got executed for not singing Kim's praises loud enough every morning.