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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's a little bit ironic to me that the security company formerly run by the man who literally wrote the book on social engineering may have fallen victim to a social engineering attack.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And makes it's living on telling other companies how to increase their security posture

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

The grift has come fulk circle

[–] radivojevic@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We learn more lessons by failing than succeeding.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

True, but Kevin certainly had his share of both.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 3 months ago

Guess they didn't KnowBe4.

[–] GildorInglorion@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

(https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us) They are saying they caught the guy before he had access to anything important.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He made it though onboarding and got a company laptop with creds. Got flagged by SEC because he got malware day 1. Also they dug in and he was connected to the states with a VPN.

HR failed. SEC caught it. Now SEC/CIO yell at HR.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

This report makes it sound like they had a video call with camera on, vs other reports where they recommend people have camera on because they didn't

also used AI tools to create a profile picture and match that face during the video conference calls.

This doesn't sounds like the video was on / faked only that they had a call where the profile picture was used.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Boy, I bet they wish they.. (drumroll) KnewBe4