Combating Employment Fraud & Insider Risk
A Nisos investigation into an active DPRK employment fraud cell made headlines. Watch our investigators and an expert panel break down what they uncovered and what security, HR, GRC, and CISO teams should do next.
On-demand webinar with expert panel discussion
Hosted by Nisos, with an award winning panel including guest speakers, Nicole Perlroth and Evan Wolff
A deep-dive, expert-led webinar on one of the most urgent workforce security challenges today: employment fraud used as a vector for insider risk, espionage, and financial exploitation – featuring new findings from a Nisos investigation covered by NBC News.
Why This Matters
Employment fraud isn’t just a hiring nuisance, it’s quickly becoming an enterprise-wide risk that intersects talent acquisition, corporate security, insider threat, and identity risk management.
- Fraudulent job applicants are rising globally, driven by remote work, generative AI, and organized adversaries. Gartner predicts that by 2028 1 in 4 job applicants could be fake, enabled by AI-generated profiles, images, and identities. [HR Dive]
- Insider risk incidents are increasing sharply: 48% of organizations reported a rise in insider threats in 2024, and average costs for an insider incident in North America topped $22 M. [Syteca]
- The DOJ has called SPRK IT worker infiltration a “code red.” The FBI warns these schemes are becoming “increasingly malicious,” with CrowdStrike reporting a 220% rise in North Korean fraudulent employment at Western companies in 2025.
- Many hiring processes still can’t detect deep-fake identities, AI-assisted interviews, or synthetic profiles, leaving gaps that organized adversaries are actively exploiting.
As talent acquisition becomes increasingly digital and AI-enabled, adversaries are exploiting hiring systems to gain access well before traditional security controls ever engage. This webinar equips you with practical, actionable insights to close those gaps.
What You’ll Learn
In this session, our panel breaks down:
- New findings from an active Nisos investigation into a DPRK-linked employment fraud cell — including how the team identified a suspected operative, “hired” him, gained access to a live laptop farm, and mapped a network of ~20 workers who had collectively applied to 160,000+ roles. This investigation was reported by NBC News this weekend.
- How AI is supercharging employment fraud — not just polishing resumes, but enabling deep fakes, identity manipulation, and AI-guided interviews at scale.
- Red flags to watch for during resume screening, interviews, and onboarding – drawn from real-world cases.
- How employment fraud becomes insider risk – from initial access to data theft, extortion, and persistent backdoors.
- How to integrate these insights into hiring, risk, and insider threat programs quickly and effectively.
Meet Our Panel
Leading experts from Nisos and special guests bring cross-discipline expertise in threat intelligence, insider risk, and fraud mitigation.
Nicole Perlroth
Founding Partner, Silver Buckshot Ventures
Nicole is an award-winning cybersecurity journalist and former lead reporter for The New York Times. Author of the bestseller This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends, and host of the To Catch a Thief podcast, she now invests in and advises security startups, and speaks globally on emerging cyber threats.
Evan Wolff
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Evan co-chairs Akin’s cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection practice and advises global companies and boards on cyber risk and incident response. Ranked by Chambers USA, he is known for pairing deep technical expertise with sharp legal and policy insight drawn from experience as a scientist, program manager, and attorney.
Ryan LaSalle
CEO, Nisos
At Nisos, Ryan leads efforts to use open-source intelligence to expose digital threats and protect organizations, employees, and customers. Formerly North America Lead for Accenture Security, he brings 25+ years of experience advising global enterprises, is a Ponemon Fellow, patent holder, and frequent security speaker.
Benjamin Racenberg
Security Intelligence & Risk Mitigation Leader, Nisos
Ben is a security intelligence leader with 10+ years across U.S. government and industry, including as a former CIA targeting analyst. He builds investigative programs that counter fraud, insider threats, and cyber-enabled harm — and helped devise the NISOS investigation into an active DPRK employment fraud cell featured this weekend by NBC News. Ben translates complex intelligence into action by creating scalable workflows and partnering across legal, security, and engineering to strengthen resilience and protect people, products, and platforms.
Get direct insights from the investigators behind the Nisos research featured by NBC News, alongside expert perspectives on employment fraud and insider risk.
Watch the full session to understand how these campaigns work and what your team can do to detect and prevent them.