Jess Weatherbed
Pyongyang on payroll.
The increase in AI tools, deepfake technology, and fully remote jobs following the covid pandemic has enabled a new kind of scam: workers who take jobs with US and European companies under false identities and send their salaries to the North Korean government.
The US government estimates that teams of pretenders can earn up to $3 million each year, and workers can go undetected at companies for many months.