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[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even though the photo provided to HR was fake, the person who was interviewed for the job apparently looked enough like it to pass.

why not send an actual picture of his face?

[–] Philippe23@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My guess would be that they needed to get a mid-point between existing photos of the guy whose identity they stole and the guy that would show up in the video interviews.

[–] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Very unlikely, If you read and refer to the article. The identity was stolen but the pic is a stock photo.

The two images at the top of this story are a stock photo and what KnowBe4 says is the AI fake based on the stock photo.

[–] Philippe23@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

My thought on that is that they needed a new location so their image didn't just look like a modified version of another of the victim's public images, so NK searched for a stock photo for a professional looking location. Ars has just located the stock image they started from.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why not just take a new one at a professional looking location in NK?

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

The last photographer starved to death and the guy who imported cameras got executed for not singing Kim's praises loud enough every morning.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the company that made "The Inside Man", a series where a company gets infiltrated by not being careful enough of who they hire

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I remember having to watch those for onboarding. They weren't as cheesy as they could have been for an informational video.

I do appreciate how they're handling it, though. A public post-mortem is much more reassuring than damage control PR. Plus, being honest means they gain the IT folks who actually have to use their stuff as allies.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the series is pretty entertaining actually. And for the PR thing, they pitched it as a learning incident, and I agree with that, but they are lucky nothing truly bad happened because this company sends phishing tests, and a link could be replaced by the attackers - kind of like in a fake fake phishing email.

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Way to break that hard earned trust guys

[–] paridoxical@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They lost any trust when we learned they are a bunch of bat-shit scientologists.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

North Korea?

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

The scam is that they are actually doing the work, getting paid well, and give a large amount to North Korea to fund their illegal programs.

So even if you do the work and do it well, you’re not allowed to spend your money how you see fit

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

I just wonder how many haven't been caught...

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

How does that even happen lmao