Skip to content
What to do about North Korean remote workers episode artwork

Feb 27, 2026 27 min

What to do about North Korean remote workers

from Risky Business Features

In this podcast James Wilson chats with Brad Arkin about North Korea’s sprawling fake IT worker ecosystem. From fake interviews, to stolen identities, basement laptop farms and IP-KVM tricks, the North Koreans are operating a whole employment fraud industry. Brad and James discuss how the scheme works in practice and the technical detection challenges defenders now face, like dealing with stolen or borrowed identities, bribed verification checks and multi-person operational chains. They also dig into why enterprises are largely on the back foot, and why there’s no single product you can buy to solve this. As the former CISO of Adobe, Cisco and Salesforce, Brad has some firsthand experience dealing with this stuff! Show notes

Episode details come from the podcast's RSS feed.

Embed this episode

Ready to play

What to do about North Korean remote workers

0:00 27:55

No transcript yet.

Requests help us decide what to transcribe next.

Frequently asked questions

How long is this episode of Risky Business Features?

This episode is 27 minutes long.

When was this Risky Business Features episode published?

This episode was published on February 27, 2026.

Can I download this Risky Business Features episode?

Yes. Use the download control on the episode player to save the publisher-provided media file.