How not to hire a North Korean IT spy

snydeq writes: CISOs are urged to carry out tighter vetting of new hires to ward off potential ‘moles’ who are increasingly finding their way onto company payrolls and into their IT systems, writes John Leyden in a feature on the trend that finds North Korea actively infiltrating Western companies using skilled IT workers who use fake identities to pose as remote workers with foreign companies, typically but not exclusively in the US. "The schemes are part of illicit revenue generation efforts by the North Korean regime, which faces financial sanctions over its nuclear weapons program, as well as a component of the country’s cyberespionage activities."