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Researchers Expose North Korean IT Hiring Ploy

Security researchers pulled off a clever experiment, creating a fake DeFi startup and hiring three suspected North Korean IT operatives to uncover the tactics used to secretly place foreign workers in companies, and were surprised to find that none exploited their access. The operatives cleared interviews, signed contracts, and were given access to a work virtual machine, but instead of breaching security, they seemed to be gathering intel.