The North Korea worker problem is bigger than you think

Executive summary: Reporting from DTEX and industry responders describes an extensive North Korean scheme that embeds technical personnel as full-time employees across global enterprises, granting them privileged access and enabling lateral pivots into supply-chain partners; these insiders use legitimate remote-access tools and anomalous high-duration sessions to coordinate work and funnel earnings to Pyongyang, raising immediate concerns for espionage, extortion, and future sabotage of critical infrastructure.