{"id":231067,"date":"2026-02-11T01:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/dprk-operatives-impersonate-professionals-on-linkedin-to-infiltrate-companies"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:31:47","slug":"dprk-operatives-impersonate-professionals-on-linkedin-to-infiltrate-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/dprk-operatives-impersonate-professionals-on-linkedin-to-infiltrate-companies","title":{"rendered":"DPRK Operatives Impersonate Professionals on LinkedIn to Infiltrate Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dprk-operatives-impersonate-professionals-on-linkedin-to-infiltrate-companies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlways validate that accounts listed by candidates are controlled by the email they provide,\u201d Security Alliance said. \u201cSimple checks like asking them to connect with you on LinkedIn will verify their ownership and control of the account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure comes as the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) issued an advisory, stating it\u2019s aware of \u201cseveral cases\u201d over the past year where Norwegian businesses have been impacted by IT worker schemes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe businesses have been tricked into hiring what likely North Korean IT workers in home office positions,\u201d PST <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pst.no\/kunnskapsbank\/rapporter\/nordkoreanske-it-arbeidere-er-fordekt-ansatt-i-norske-bedrifter\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> last week. \u201cThe salary income North Korean employees receive through such positions probably goes to finance the country\u2019s weapons and nuclear weapons program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlways validate that accounts listed by candidates are controlled by the email they provide,\u201d Security Alliance said. \u201cSimple checks like asking them to connect with you on LinkedIn will verify their ownership and control of the account.\u201d The disclosure comes as the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) issued an advisory, stating it\u2019s aware of \u201cseveral [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,45,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}