{"id":998679,"date":"2026-03-18T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998679"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:54:38","slug":"americas-north-korean-it-workers-problem-that-amazon-security-head-said-he-traced-by-keystroke-data-is-now-troubling-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/18\/americas-north-korean-it-workers-problem-that-amazon-security-head-said-he-traced-by-keystroke-data-is-now-troubling-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s North Korean IT workers&#8217; problem that Amazon security head said he traced by keystroke data is now &#8216;troubling&#8217; Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean hackers are reportedly posing as remote IT workers for more companies. Cybersecurity experts have warned that the scheme, previously identified in the United States, is now affecting companies in Europe. The issue earlier drew attention in the US after an incident involving Amazon. In December 2025, the e-commerce giant&#8217;s chief security officer, Stephen Schmidt, said that keystroke data indicated a contractor hired as an IT worker was likely operating from overseas rather than the US. The delay in command signals reaching Amazon\u2019s Seattle systems suggested the person was \u201chalf a world away,\u201d highlighting concerns that such workers may be using remote jobs to fund the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean hackers are reportedly posing as remote IT workers for more companies. Cybersecurity experts have warned that the scheme, previously identified in the United States, is now affecting companies in Europe. The issue earlier drew attention in the US after an incident involving Amazon. In December 2025, the e-commerce giant&#8217;s chief security officer, Stephen Schmidt, said that keystroke data indicated a contractor hired as an IT worker was likely operating from overseas rather than the US. The delay in command signals reaching Amazon\u2019s Seattle systems suggested the person was \u201chalf a world away,\u201d highlighting concerns that such workers may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}