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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

KnowBe4 mistakenly hires North Korean hacker, faces infostealer attack

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KnowBe4 mistakenly hires North Korean hacker, faces infostealer attack

www.bleepingcomputer.com

fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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American cybersecurity company KnowBe4 says a person it recently hired as a Principal Software Engineer turned out to be a North Korean state actor who attempted to install information-stealing on its devices.
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    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.

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

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        The grift has come fulk circle

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    (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.

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      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.

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

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