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Tech giant company
United States
, Amazon, rejected the job applications of 1,800 North Koreans following a massive deployment of IT workers allegedly to fund the Kim Jong Un regime’s weapons programs.
Amazon Security Chief Stephen Schmidt said the number of job applicants from North Korea increased 27 percent in the past year.
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“At Amazon, we have stopped more than 1,800 suspected North Korean agents from joining since April 2024,” he said in
LinkedIn
earlier this week.
Amazon.he continued, detecting applicants from North Korea by combining AI-based screening with human verification.
Amazon’s AI model analyzes connections to nearly 200 high-risk institutions, across applications, and geographic discrepancies.
“We verify identity through background checks, credential verification and structured interviews,” Schmidt said.
Schimdt then said North Korean workers were trying to get remote IT jobs at companies around the world, especially in the United States.
“Their goals are usually simple: get hired, get paid, and channel the wages back to fund the regime’s weapons programs,” he said.
Schmidt said North Koreans typically use computers in the US that are operated remotely from overseas “laptop farms.”This problem, he said, does not only occur at Amazon.
According to him, signs that indicate they are North Korean workers include incorrectly formatted telephone numbers and suspicious academic credentials.
The North Korean job applicant will also operate by stealing identities from inactive accounts on LinkedIn, targeting AI roles, and working with laptop farm facilitators.
US technology companies’ wariness of North Korea emerged after a woman in Arizona was sentenced to more than eight years in prison last July.He runs a network of laptop providers that helps North Korean IT workers get remote jobs at more than 300 US companies.
According to officials, the scheme generated more than $17 million in revenue for themselves and North Korea.
On the other hand, Seoul’s intelligence agency has warned that North Korean agents are using LinkedIn to pose as recruiters and approach South Koreans who work at defense companies to get information about their technology.
(isa/bac)
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