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- Bitdefender
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- Nation-state, Phishing & scams
US authorities have arrested two suspects and seized nearly 190 devices in a crackdown on North Korea's fake remote IT workers. The FBI warns that the scheme is expanding to include identity theft, extortion and even threats of physical violence. North Korean operatives have been posing as US-based workers to quietly land remote IT jobs at American companies, gaining access to sensitive corporate systems while collecting salaries. Now, a federal crackdown has exposed the scale of the operation…
Spotted a scam?
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- Forward scam texts to 7726, free on most UK networks.
- Never share a one-time code, and check any request for money by calling a number you already trust.
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