Looking for a job? Not so fast according to North Korea

The Koreas are at it. First we had South Korea getting Tik Tok in to some trouble, and now we have North Korea in the phishing game. I’ve seen numerous job offers in my email before, and even offers sent through my web site forms telling me that the supposed company has all these devlopers and they’re in China or some other country and they can do my site for cheap.

While some of this may be spam, some of it may be legitimate job offers. I’m unaware of a company that sends job offers to people randomly however, I believe that most legit job offers you have to go seek unless you call the company first.

Here is what I’d do.

• If I got a job offer from what looks like a legit company, see if you can find a point of contact.
• Contact them through the point of contact and ask if the company sends job offers by email.
• Depending on what you get as an answer, proceed with caution, and remember to check the URL if clicking.

Macafee detected malware after job offers were sent, and this is why I highlighted some potentials to check. My hunch is that this isn’t normal to receive job offers by email, and we should be aware of that.

There are a lot of links within this article, so quoting it is going to be a little bit difficult, so I’ll leave you by putting the article to read if you’re in the market.

For North Korea, phishing with fake job-recruitment emails never gets old

I read this article on the 30th of July, and it isn’t completely old. It can be shared any time. That time is now.