North Korean citizens who hide their identities to infiltrate companies as employees or contractors continue to expand their presence beyond technology companies and America’s boundaries.

Almost every industry has been deceived in employing North Koreans in violation of sanctions, such as Technology companies are only half The threat researchers at Octa said in this week’s report among all the targeted victims.

OKTA That Intelligence found evidence confirming the citizens of North Korea and they have targeted and asked for any organization that employ a distance talent. Researchers said that the North Korean regime will follow any opportunity to collect and wash the payment if the application and the interview can be implemented and remotely.

North Koreans are no longer limited to this and software engineering positions. According to OKTA research, more North Koreans are now applying for remote financing jobs, such as payments and engineering roles.

While technology companies attract the highest volume of applications and work interviews, other vertical including financing, insurance, health care, manufacturing, public management and professional services often in OKTA analysis.

The researchers relied on the study on more than 130 identitys used by the facilitators and workers participating in this scheme, and they linked these people to more than 6500 job interviews scattered across 5,000 companies over a period of four years until mid -2015.

OKTA admits that this reflects only a small sample of North Korea’s scheme, but he said it highlights the extent of targeting of workers in IT in more countries.

“It is possible that increased awareness of this threat – as well as government cooperative efforts and the private sector to determine their operations and disrupt them – will be an additional engine for them to target increasing roles outside the United States and IT industries,” OKTA’s threat researchers said in the report.

In fact, intelligence companies and those responsible for the threat constantly warned of the spread of the North Korean plan. In April, Mandyan said Hundreds of Fortune 500 organizations They unintentionally rented IT workers.

Crowdstrike said, in August, he noticed a An increase of 220 % on an annual basis In North Korea’s IT activity, it reaches 320 accidents in the past year. Sections of justice and treasury Crossed currencyIssue The accusation regulations and Persons and entities that you imposed He claims to be involved in a scheme for years.

OKTA analysis revealed a global expansion of the North Korea information technology operation, with 27 % of targeted roles outside the United States. Researchers have noticed North Korean agents targeting roles in the United Kingdom, Canada and Germany, where each country represents about 150 to 250 rounds.

Other targeted countries include India, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland, Japan, France and Poland.

OKTA has warned that non -US -based companies are less skilled and anxious than to find applicants in North Korea for jobs because the plan was largely seen as a problem in the American technology industry. Researchers said this creates a high problem in the newly targeted countries.

“Years of continuous activity have allowed a wide range of American industries with facilitators and workers in the Democratic Republic of Korea to improve infiltration methods,” Octa said in the report. “Thus, they enter new markets with a well -air -conditioned working force capable of overcoming basic examination controls and more effective recruitment lines.”