The Lazarus Group IT Job Infiltration Scheme

North Korean operatives infiltrated Western firms via remote IT jobs, stealing data and crypto to funnel millions to the regime.

Many had strong technical security. The weakness was hiring and identity proofing, not firewalls.For most companies, “remote work” sounds like flexibility, talent from anywhere, and lower office costs. For North Korea, it became something else entirely, a quiet way to slip state backed operatives into Western networks, collect salaries in hard currency,…