Digital security giant busts vetted cyber hire

AS the number of digital nomads increases and online hiring becomes the norm, even rigorous vetting could fail if companies did not have several layers of security.Last week global cybersecurity awareness company KnowBe4 said despite their rigorous digital vetting processes, they were scammed into hiring a North Korean spy. The deception was discovered when the “new employee” downloaded malware on a company-issued laptop.The company said these bad actors used sophisticated strategies helped by artificial intelligence (AI) to create fake but believable identities to get hired. They then…