North Korean operatives posing as recruiters to hijack verified freelancer accounts
North Korean operatives have "diversified" their way of defrauding victims through freelancing and code-hosting platforms that recruit unsuspecting users as identity proxies for remote tech jobs, according to cybersecurity researchers. Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) IT workers are using Upwork, Freelancer, and GitHub to impersonate legitimate workers and evade international sanctions by using verified [...]