North Korean spies have found ways into U.S. companies, tricking employers into thinking their legitimate workers, when they're trying to siphon off business' data.

Everything seemed fine when one of Eran Barak’s customers, a financial services business, hired a remote worker to do their Salesforce admin. In the interview, the man seemed capable of doing what should’ve been routine work, and he passed all the background checks. Two weeks into the job, though, Barak says his AI software, dubbed MIND, spotted the employee sending highly sensitive company data up to his personal cloud account. The person coming into the office turned out not to be the same person who’d been interviewed, Barak says. “It was a completely different individual who had ‘bought’ the job from a professional fraudster.”

With so many new risks to business’ data, from accidentally employing a fraudster or losing data to North Korean spies with a similar modus operandi, or employees giving away company secrets to AI chatbots like ChatGPT, companies need new security tech to........

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