A job interview can become a gateway. Not into a company, but into its IT systems. This is the technique scrutinized by Western intelligence: fake recruiters contact professionals through LinkedIn, build a trust relationship, and try to open a breach in the networks of companies and public administrations, including Italian ones. Behind the operation, according to reports, is North Korea.
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The risk does not stop at the individual computer. Access can allow information to be stolen, fuel industrial espionage activities, or penetrate deeper into the supply chain, reaching public entities and infrastructures.
The National Cybersecurity Agency had already made this public in mid-August. Now the next level emerges: the attribution of the activity to Pyongyang. A step that places the fake interviews on LinkedIn within a much broader framework, that of cyber pressure exerted on the West by groups linked to state apparatuses.
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The Acn alert on fake LinkedIn recruiters
On August 17, Acn described the fake interviews as an “increasingly insidious phenomenon” through LinkedIn. The alert was also relaunched on Rai 1 by Admiral Gianluca Galasso, director of the Csirt Italy Operations Service (the body responsible for preventing, managing, and responding to cybersecurity incidents) of the Agency.
The issue is not the platform itself, but how it is used. According to Acn, these contacts “can be used by cybercriminals to get in touch with victims and launch cyberattacks against administrations and infrastructures.”
