[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-north-korean-job-scammers-move-beyond-it-into-healthcare-and-sales":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},5964,"north-korean-job-scammers-move-beyond-it-into-healthcare-and-sales","North Korean job scammers move beyond IT into healthcare and sales","Huntress says North Korean job seekers are widening their fraud scheme beyond tech into healthcare, sales, and marketing roles.","North Korea's fake-worker scheme just widened its target list.\n\nAccording to security firm Huntress, North Korean nationals running the years-old \"IT worker scheme\" are now applying for jobs well outside software and tech support. Investigators found three people posing as Chinese nationals working inside an Australian healthcare company, a financial services firm whose remote staff operated through devices on China-based \"laptop farms,\" and a sales and marketing hire who used a real person's stolen identity - name, birth date, and location lifted from a law enforcement arrest record - while appearing on video calls with his own face. To pull it off, operatives use forged documents, pre-recorded or AI-generated video, and ChatGPT to draft answers that avoid raising suspicion, while VPNs and proxies mask their true location.\n\nThis isn't a new campaign, but the sector expansion matters. Healthcare, sales, and marketing teams typically run lighter identity checks than IT departments now trained to spot the scheme, which makes them easier marks. For US employers, hiring North Korean workers violates sanctions regardless of industry, so the compliance exposure Huntress describes now extends well past the security team's usual turf.\n\nHuntress notes these workers often do the actual job competently, which is what makes the scheme so hard to catch - and a reminder that \"state-sponsored fraud\" here looks less like hacking and more like a really convincing job application.","[\"north-korea\",\"job-fraud\",\"sanctions\",\"cybersecurity\"]","2026-09-01T16:40:00.000Z","2026-09-01T17:51:29.831Z","2026-09-01T17:51:41.726Z","published",null,[],"security",[26,27,28,29],"north-korea","job-fraud","sanctions","cybersecurity",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"TechRadar","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.techradar.com\u002Fpro\u002Fsecurity\u002Fnorth-korea-expands-fraudulent-job-resumes-to-target-marketing-sales-and-medical-sector",0,{"sections":36},[37,42,46,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101],{"name":38,"slug":39,"count":40,"latest_published_at":41},"AI","ai",3360,"2026-09-01T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":43,"slug":24,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"Security",517,"2026-09-01T21:20:00.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Policy","policy",260,"2026-09-01T18:19:26.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Hardware","hardware",151,"2026-09-01T14:42:22.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",95,"2026-08-18T16:05:00.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Science","science",91,"2026-08-20T10:01:48.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Software","software",73,"2026-08-18T07:51:50.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",69,"2026-08-18T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Startups","startups",52,"2026-08-25T18:55:12.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"General","general",34,"2026-09-01T13:28:43.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]