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KnowBe4 mistakenly hires North Korean hacker, faces infostealer attack

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KnowBe4 mistakenly hires North Korean hacker, faces infostealer attack

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months 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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(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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