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Your newest security threat might already have a badge, a login, and a paycheck. A year-long North Korean IT worker campaign used a fabricated identity to land a remote job inside a U.S. federal agency. Nobody caught it until federal investigators did. In one scheme, fraudsters used at least 80 stolen American identities to get hired at more than 100 U.S. companies, including Fortune 500 organizations, and generated more than $17 million before getting caught. At Socure, we receive hundreds of resumes a month from candidates we believe are fake. If we're seeing that volume, every company hiring remotely is too. In this special edition of World War Fraud Weekly, Mike Cook breaks down Workforce Fraud: -Why the warnings about this threat went unheeded, and what changed -The $17 million "laptop farm" scheme that reached 309 companies -Why Form I-9, E-Verify, and Zero Trust weren't built to catch this Read the full edition below.