As US companies hire for remote positions, they face a growing threat that scammers use artificial intelligence tools to create false identities and credentials. These false employees use their company’s access to wreak havoc in malware.
CNBC reports that the increase in artificial intelligence has brought numerous benefits to companies, but has also introduced a new challenge: false employment applicants who use AI to deceive employers. According to the recent reports of the CEO of technology and cybersecurity experts, American companies that hire for remote positions are flooding with applications of imposters that use identifications of photos generated by AI, Employment History and interview responses.
Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO and co -founder of Startup of Voice Authentication Pindrop Security, recently found a fraudulent candidate called “Ivan X”. The applicant, a Russian encoder, seemed to have all the right grades for a senior engineering. However, the duration of a video interview, the Pindrop recruiter noticed that Ivan’s facial expressions were slightly out of synchrony with their words, indicating the use or Software Deepfake.
The Gartner research and advice firm predicts that by 2028, 1 in 4 world -level candidates will be false due to the increase in profiles generated by AI. This raises significant risks for colleagues, since imposters can install malware, demand rescue, steal customer data, commercial secrets or funds once hired.
Breitbart News previously reported on this topic in October last year, writing:
North Korea engineers are using artificial intelligence and other technologies to deceive foreign governments and corporations, landing jobs abroad and winning US dollars to finance the Kim Jong-un regime, Asian Nikkei Review reported Thursday.
According to Nikkei, US facilitators are helping the Pyongyang regime to win foreign currency to finance arms programs. The newspaper referred to the case of Matthew Isaac Knoot, a 38 -year -old man from Nashville, Tennessee, who directed a “portable farm” with the intention of generating income for the North Korean weapons program.
Knoot used the equipment and stolen identities to deceive US and British companies to hire Korean people who intend to be US workers from the United States. UU., Washing of the finals of remote IT works linked to North Korean and Chinese actors. According to the Office of the Lawyer for the Middle District of Tennessee, the operation of the “laptop farm” showed income or around $ 250,000 between July 2022 and August 2023 for each false vaporizer.
Cybersecurity and cryptocurrency companies seem to be particularly vulnerable to this threat, since they or hire for remote roles. Ben Sevser, CEO of Bright, a company that helps corporate clients to evaluate possible employees in video interviews, has seen a “massive” increase in fraudulent work candidates this year.
The problem is not limited to the technology industry. In May, the United States Department of Justice claimed that more than 300 US companies, including Fortune 500 companies, had inadvertently hired imposters with ties with North Korea for you. These workers used stolen American identities and remote networks to mask their true locations, sending millions of dollars in salaries to North Korea to help finance the Nation’s weapons program.
Lili Infante, founder and executive director of Cat Labs, a startup at the intersection of cybersecurity and cryptocurrencies, reports that they receive requests from “100 North Korean spies” each time it includes a work publication. To combat this, companies are resorting to identity verification companies to eliminate false candidates.
Read more in CNBC here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter of Knitbart News that cover issues of freedom of expression and online censorship.
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