Researchers Built a Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Three Suspected North Korean IT Workers
Security researchers invented a cryptocurrency startup, advertised developer jobs, and hired three people they believe were North Korean operatives. Every virtual machine the company issued was recording.
The onboarding paperwork is the part hiring teams can use. The first hire claimed to live in Pasadena, Texas, then sent a California driver's license and a New York bank account.
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There's a joke in here about immigrants stealing tech jobs and not even bothering to immigrate at all.
Do hackernews exclusively use sloppy AI images?
"Hacker News" is https://news.ycombinator.com/
"The Hacker News" (the site OP linked) is something different and, I think, possibly less well-known/reputable.
ugh yes that image is quite sludgy