Steve Schmidt, the chief security officer at Amazon, says his team has identified and blocked more than 1,800 attempts by North Korea to secure IT roles at the tech giant. He warns that this scheme is becoming more prevalent across the technology industry as the nation-state actor targets the lucrative salaries of generative artificial intelligence and machine learning jobs, and the troves of valuable data such workers have access to.
“A lot of people don’t think about organized efforts by other parties to get people hired into organizations who have interesting data,” says Schmidt, speaking at an event held by Amazon this week. “It’s actually pretty prolific.”
