{"id":430,"date":"2024-10-18T14:19:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=430"},"modified":"2024-10-18T14:19:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:19:57","slug":"north-korean-it-workers-in-western-firms-now-demanding-ransom-for-stolen-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/north-korean-it-workers-in-western-firms-now-demanding-ransom-for-stolen-data\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean IT Workers in Western Firms Now Demanding Ransom for Stolen Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korean information technology (IT) workers who obtain employment under false identities in Western companies are not only stealing intellectual property, but are also stepping up by demanding ransoms in order to not leak it, marking a new twist to their financially motivated attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In some instances, fraudulent workers demanded ransom payments from their former employers after gaining insider access, a tactic not observed in earlier schemes,&#8221; Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureworks.com\/blog\/fraudulent-north-korean-it-worker-schemes\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in an analysis published this week. &#8220;In one case, a contractor exfiltrated proprietary data almost immediately after starting employment in mid-2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/north-korean-it-workers-in-western-firms-now-demanding-ransom-for-stolen-data\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/10\/north-korean-it-workers-in-western.html\">North Korean IT Workers in Western Firms Now Demanding Ransom for Stolen Data (thehackernews.com)<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: North Korean IT Workers in Western Firms Now Demanding Ransom for Stolen Data<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean information technology (IT) workers who obtain employment under false identities in Western companies are not only stealing intellectual property, but are also stepping up by demanding ransoms in order to not leak it, marking a new twist to their financially motivated attacks. &#8220;In some instances, fraudulent workers demanded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[31,39],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-ransomware","tag-31","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}