Complex Impersonation Story
This is a story of one piece of what is probably a complex employment scam. Basically, real programmers are having their resumes copied and co-opted by scammers, who apply for jobs (or, I suppose, get recruited from various job sites), then hire other people with Western looks and language skills are to impersonate those first people on Zoom job interviews. Presumably, sometimes the scammers get hired and…I suppose…collect paychecks for a while until they get found out and fired. But that requires a bunch of banking fraud as well, so I don’t know.
EDITED TO ADD (10/11): Brian Krebs writes about fake LinkedIn profiles, which is probably another facet of this fraud system. Someone needs to unravel all of the threads.
Mike B • October 10, 2022 6:40 AM
Perhaps the point of this project is not paychecks, but access to the systems of companies and agencies that handle sensitive information such as USA and NATO military personnel records. In that case, the intruders would care little about the payroll, and would focus on either gaining further credentials or implanting malware in the first days. Keeping the job for long would not be needed.