• ShadowA
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    4 months ago

    Wait, they hired someone without even having a video call?

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      4 months ago

      Maybe they lied in the call and said they weren’t a North Korean hacker. That would be the kind of devious thing a hacker might do.

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        4 months ago

        They submitted a deep fake photo and never did a call.

        To prevent a repeat, KnowBe4 is advising its peers in the industry to consider interviewing prospective employees on a video call to ensure they’re real

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          Holy shit, this is classic. The next time I let my ADHD get the better of me and I accidentally click on a link in a spoof phishing email (and, yes, try to log in to whatever account they told me there was a problem with because I’m an idiot, you’re so perfect, shut up) sent as a test by the IT department which results in them requiring me to take some KnowBe4 refresher course, I’m sending them this article and telling them “This one is a freebie.”

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          Oh lol, my company is/was using them to produce testing phishing emails to determine if employees can spot them. It is quite ironic they fell for the ultimate phish.

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          Wasn’t there a case recently where some hackers in Hk videocalled and faked being a bank guys boss and got him to send over money.

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        4 months ago

        Hey now, it’s even on the USA visa application:

        Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide? ☐

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      4 months ago

      Probably was for a high stress, high turnover position where anyone competent and breathing would do.

    • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
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      They didn’t do one in this case, but I have heard stories of these sorts of malicious actors paying people stateside or elsewhere to take the video interviews. I’ve had to do ID checks on video in recent-ish interviews.

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        And with deepfakes they could make the video call look like the person in the fake photo they sent.