HUNDREDS of North Korean Spies have infiltrated US companies as remote employees!?: Crowdstrike CEO
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Brief Summary
North Korean hackers infiltrate U.S. companies by posing as developers, raising security concerns.
Key points
- The High Stakes of Developer Value. The demand for top-tier developers is so intense that companies may overlook serious security risks.
- North Korea's Hacking Strategy. North Korea is leveraging AI and hacking to fund their operations and acquire trade secrets.
Transcript
The value of a top tier developer is so high that you'll take a spy. >> Yeah, exactly. >> It's like ah, you know, we kind of need them to ship. You look at a country like North Korea, they need revenue. >> Yep. >> Hacking's pretty great revenue source. They were even using AI. My understanding, and I'm sure you've been following this, to get developer jobs in the United States, convince Americans to put laptops in their homes >> so that they could remote work. >> You know, when when you have a piece of malware, it's like, okay, that's bad.
You can detect it. But when you have to tell a company that their employee may not be their employee, you have >> it's a little gentle. Like >> you have to be gentle. >> You're letting them know just how incompetent they are when it comes to security. I said it, not you. >> And we found hundreds now over >> hundreds in America. They were doing it, my understanding is for the highpaying salary to fund stuff in North Korea. Is that correct or not? They were doing it to get trade secrets. >> They were doing it to buy access. Why breakin when you can just log in? >> Oh my god.
>> Yeah. You know, so it's a lot easier to get somebody hired. True story. We actually say we think this employee is not an employee. They investigate it and they go, "Yeah, you were right." I said, "Well, tell me the story." And they said, "Well, we we went to this person's boss and we said, "We don't think that's a real person." And they went through all the reasons why. Finally, they said, "We think it's a North Korean." His boss said, "Well, do we have to get rid of him because he did such good work?" >> Oh my lord. So, the value of a top tier developer is so high that you'll take us by. >> Yeah, exactly. It's like, you know, we
kind of need him to ship.
