North Korea Uses Third-Country IT Workers to Infiltrate US Firms

This matters less as a labor-market curiosity than as a reminder that the crypto industry's remote-first, pseudonymous hiring norms make it a natural target for exactly this playbook. The firms most exposed are those that treat a working codebase and a clean interview as sufficient diligence, without verifying who actually holds the keys to the repo or the treasury. Whether third-country fronts keep outpacing standard KYC and background checks is the open question — and whether crypto employers tighten hiring faster than they tighten on-chain controls.