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North Korean hacker got hired by US security vendor, immediately loaded malware (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is the company that made "The Inside Man", a series where a company gets infiltrated by not being careful enough of who they hire

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I remember having to watch those for onboarding. They weren't as cheesy as they could have been for an informational video.

I do appreciate how they're handling it, though. A public post-mortem is much more reassuring than damage control PR. Plus, being honest means they gain the IT folks who actually have to use their stuff as allies.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, the series is pretty entertaining actually. And for the PR thing, they pitched it as a learning incident, and I agree with that, but they are lucky nothing truly bad happened because this company sends phishing tests, and a link could be replaced by the attackers - kind of like in a fake fake phishing email.