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A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security specialists at the online retail giant. Normally, a U.S.-based remote worker’s computer would send keystroke data within tens of milliseconds. This suspicious individual’s keyboard lag was “more than 110 milliseconds,” reports Bloomberg.

Amazon is commendably proactive in its pursuit of impostors, according to the source report. The news site talked with Amazon’s Chief Security Officer, Stephen Schmidt, about this fascinating new case of North Koreans trying to infiltrate U.S. organizations to raise hard currency for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and sometimes indulge in espionage and/or sabotage.

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[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Correct. The hostile actor gained employment with their victim, a common method of infiltration. You should look up the definition of infiltration.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -4 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

working a job is not infiltration.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It kinda is, its practically a requirement for a lot of corporate espionage and a lot of spies have entire lives alongside their spy duties. Also fun joke I've heard about Vladivostok during the Cold war, "There were surprisingly only a handful of people in that city, American spies, Soviet counter intelligence, smugglers, cargo movers, and baristas who ignored the whole mess" heard that from an ex-CIA guy who was doing a talk at a spy exhibit back when I was a kid.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

so? does working a job == espionage because it's north korea? i don't think they have ever gone at war or any kind of open conflict with western countries at all recently excluding the thing with south korea and the us not liking their existence...?

why are their workers totally all spies as opposed to say, chinese ones, which might even have a stronger interest in keeping an eye on the west? and they don't seem to have much issue with them.

as i said to me, it sounds like weasel language to smear this specific country for trying to get around the sanctions imposed on them.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 3 points 11 hours ago

It can be if that's the purpose. But considering it's NK it is almost certainly a government attempt to infiltrate.

But considering youre from .ml I doubt you'll ever acknowledge lol

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

By itself no, but employment absolutely is compatible with infiltration. In fact, it doesn't even have to be a foreign-state actor, or even a witting party (e.g. clicking on stuff in spam mail). See: insider threat, and data exfiltration.