North Korean Operatives Use Deepfakes in IT Job Interviews

Unit 42 reports that North Korean state-linked IT operatives are increasingly using real-time deepfake personas to pass remote job interviews and infiltrate U.S. and European organizations for espionage and other malicious purposes; researchers demonstrated that convincing synthetic identities can be created in about 70 minutes with consumer tools, and the report offers technical and HR-focused detection and mitigation recommendations.