As remote work has increased since the pandemic, so has the number of fraudulent job applications. Driven by well-organized operations, often linked to North Korea and nearby regions. These networks are sophisticated, well-funded, and skilled at bypassing standard screening measures.
They most often attempt to:- Secure a high-paying wage
- Gain access to sensitive internal systems
- Exfiltrating intellectual property or customer data
- Probing access to financial systems
The best thing to do is stop them at the source.
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How they infiltrate your hiring process
Identity verification bypass
Using advanced computer vision, greenscreens, and scripted behavior, these actors can even pass live video ID checks.
Faked background checks
They spoof previous employers using fake websites, dummy phone numbers, and even AI-generated LinkedIn profiles.
Legitimate-looking IP addresses
They operate through residential proxies that align with the expected region or country, making them difficult to detect via geolocation filters.
Hardware handoffs to local collaborators
They use intermediaries to receive laptops, set them up, and configure secure VPN access, creating a convincing remote work setup.
Real-time voice and face masking
With tools that obscure accents and deepfake their appearance, they can convincingly pass remote interviews and daily standups.
Opening up a remote software engineering position in the US, UK, EU, or other markets now often results in hundreds of these fraudulent applications.
This is not theoretical. It's already happening.