North Korean Operatives Taking U.S. Cyber Jobs + Other Headlines

Tuesday Digest (05.13.25)

North Korean Operatives are Taking Remote American Jobs

You might have missed this given the recent news focus on tariffs, Israel, Ukraine and Trump’s trip to the Middle East, but I want to make sure you see this chilling new report about American tech companies. Apparently, tech companies have been accidentally hiring remote workers who are actually cyber operatives from North Korea.

These spies have used stolen identities and AI-generated deepfakes to infiltrate U.S. tech companies by posing as remote IT workers. They get the American jobs, then hand over their six-figure salaries to the North Korean government to fund the Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programs.