What happens when crypto companies unknowingly hire North Korean IT workers? CoinDesk’s Sam Kessler found that DPRK developers have infiltrated the blockchain space, bringing cybersecurity risks and funneling millions to North Korea’s regime. Here’s what every tech leader should know: https://lnkd.in/eQq7hbQX Christine Lee
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Crypto companies were hiring North Korean IT workers … without even realizing it. CoinDesk’s Sam Kessler reveals how Pyongyang uses these jobs to fund its weapons program. https://lnkd.in/eQq7hbQX Watch as he explains to Christine Lee how workers got away with the scheme:
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Mind blown 🤯! Sam Kessler of CoinDesk found evidence that more than a dozen Web3 companies unknowingly hired IT workers from North Korea and subsequently got hacked. It feels almost like sci-fi that bad actors would “plant” an employee deliberately, sometimes for years, to gradually gain access and steal funds. However, the simple truth is that sophisticated crime organizations also calculate ROI and allocate their resources accordingly. If the potential check size is high enough, they will allocate immense resources to get it. Sadly, that is also true for individuals. Everyone can become a threat upon temptation, extortion, or unfortunate life circumstances. That’s life. What can be done? Removing single points of failure and distributing risks across the organization will make your company a much less attractive target than many others. This is why MPC is so powerful for sensitive key management. When implemented correctly, MPC can protect organizations against internal and external threats - distributing the ability to use the key across different admins, tech stacks, cloud providers, and geographies. At Sodot, this is a topic we often discuss with our customers and is taken into account in recommended setups for different use cases. We will share a post later this week to discuss that in more detail. https://lnkd.in/dB68sHG8
How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry
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