Danger from North Korea's IT worker: Protection of the constitution warns companies!
Danger from North Korea's IT worker: Protection of the constitution warns companies!
The dangers of North Korean IT specialists who offer their services as freelancers have been highlighted by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany. More and more companies have to be careful, because these workers disguise themselves with false identities and use stolen documents to secure orders. This is accompanied by considerable risks, including possible reputation damage, the risk of sanction violations and the risk of giving intellectual property and internal company information in the wrong hands.
In a security note from the authority, it is clarified that the use of such IT experts can result in economic and security policy consequences. The background for this warning goes back to a report by the US portal "The Daily Beast", which revealed the machinations of North Korean freelancers a year ago. The FBI had uncovered fraud methods that aim to avoid western sanctions and to procure money for North Korean military projects.
economic dangers and safety precautions
Against the background of the current security warnings, the constitutional protection emphasizes that companies unknowingly help the North Korean regime to procure the North Korean by commissioning North Korean IT specialists. This is usually done by deception with regard to their origin, whereby many output themselves as freelancers from South Korea or other Eastern European countries. In today's digital world of work, it is often difficult to check such identities that make the situation complicated.For clarification of this problem, the constitutional protection authority calls on HR managers to not only conduct interviews in writing, but also personally or via video call. These measures help to verify the identity of the applicant and to recognize potential disagreements. An important indication of a fake identity can be striking eye movements or unusually long breaks during the video call that could indicate that the applicant reads the answers.
In addition, the authority advises against paying freelancers exclusively through cryptocurrencies, since these payment methods are often associated with anonymous transactions that make it difficult to traceability. All the more, the protection of the constitution is behind the claim to use transparent payment methods to ensure that there are no connections to criminal organizations.
For companies that check potential contractors, such precautions are indispensable. The warning of the Federal Office is not only a call to vigilance, but also a memory of how important it is to implement extensive security measures in times of digital networking. The research of freelancers, the identity of which may be fake online, can be crucial for your own company status in the future. More information on this topic is to be found here .
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