A plan that turned against its creator. As SkyNews reports, a North Korea’s pirate applied to the engineer post in Kraken, a cryptocurrency specialized platform. With an objective: infiltrate the company’s ranks to collect a maximum of information.
The capture is that the group quickly meant that it was a cybercriminal. In fact, the pirate joined the first interview in Visio … by giving a different name to that in his CV. Worse, his voice, surely modified, changed during the interview.
Identify your tactics
But, instead of rejecting his profile, Kraken made him pass different selection processes, to try to know the hacker methods. “Our teams carefully advanced the candidate throughout our hiring process for more information about their tactics at each stage,” the company said in a blog post.
Therefore, they were able to discover that their email address was linked to a large network of false identities used by a group of cybercriminals. His false identity card was also examined and contained information about identity theft victims. Finally, during the final interview, the Pirate of North Korea could not cite good restaurants in the city in which he claimed to live.
Therefore, Kraken gave him a battery of technical security tests to know his identity and tactics. The entire interview has also been recorded.
And the case of this spy is far from isolated. North Korea has stolen more than $ 659 million from US cryptocurrency companies in 2024, particularly to infiltrate interior groups.
Source: BFM TV
