{"id":16034,"date":"2026-02-21T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16034"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:35:33","slug":"north-korean-infiltrator-caught-by-his-lag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16034","title":{"rendered":"North Korean infiltrator caught by his lag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/cyber-security\/north-korean-infiltrator-caught-working-in-amazon-it-department-thanks-to-lag-110ms-keystroke-input-raises-red-flags-over-true-location\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/cyber-security\/north-korean-infiltrator-caught-working-in-amazon-it-department-thanks-to-lag-110ms-keystroke-input-raises-red-flags-over-true-location\">North Korean imposter was uncovered<\/a>, working as a contract system developer at\u00a0Amazon\u00a0U.S., after his keystroke input lag raised suspicions with\u00a0security\u00a0specialists. Instead of a more normal 10ms lag remote workers generated, this contractor&#8217;s lag was around 110ms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North Korean workers have increasingly infiltrated U.S. organizations to raise hard currency for the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or sometimes indulge in espionage and\/or sabotage. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11886\">definitely not the first time<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15240\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15240\">joins their highly successful Bitcoin theft efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a contract system developer at\u00a0Amazon\u00a0U.S., after his keystroke input lag raised suspicions with\u00a0security\u00a0specialists. Instead of a more normal 10ms lag remote workers generated, this contractor&#8217;s lag was around 110ms. North Korean workers have increasingly infiltrated U.S. organizations to raise hard currency for the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or sometimes indulge in espionage and\/or sabotage. It&#8217;s definitely not the first time and joins their highly successful Bitcoin theft efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4aC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16066,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions\/16066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}