The Billion Dollar Hiring Scam Funding North Korea
About this episode
Evan Gordenker discusses how North Korea exploits hiring pipelines to infiltrate global companies.
North Korea has turned your hiring pipeline into a revenue machine. And most organizations have no idea. Evan Gordenker, Director of AI Security and DPRK Operations at Unit 42, has led more than 160 investigations into sophisticated threat actors, including the North Korean IT worker networks quietly embedded inside global companies. He joins David Moulton to unpack how this operation actually works, why common assumptions about remote work leave organizations exposed, and what security and HR teams can do to detect and disrupt it. You'll learn: - How DPRK operatives use deepfakes, fabricated identities, and real accomplice networks to pass interviews and land jobs at global companies - Why "we don't hire remote" is a dangerous assumption that no longer holds - What signals HR and SOC teams should look for, before and after someone is hired - How the threat has evolved from quiet wage theft to active extortion of former employers - What government collaboration and cross-border intelligence sharing can realistically accomplish Evan contributed to the UN Sanctions Monitoring Team report on North Korean operations and brings a rare combination of technical depth and geopolitical…
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