The FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismantle 40+ laptop farms across Texas used to help North Koreans get remote US tech jobs under stolen identities
THE SO WHAT
Remote work created a new attack surface—entire fake employee farms fronting sanctioned states for access to codebases and infra. If you run distributed teams, upgrade identity verification, device attestation, and geo/anomaly monitoring; background checks alone are now table stakes at best.
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