A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security specialists at the online retail giant. Normally, a U.S.-based remote worker’s computer would send keystroke data within tens of milliseconds. This suspicious individual’s keyboard lag was “more than 110 milliseconds,” reports Bloomberg.
Amazon is commendably proactive in its pursuit of impostors, according to the source report. The news site talked with Amazon’s Chief Security Officer, Stephen Schmidt, about this fascinating new case of North Koreans trying to infiltrate U.S. organizations to raise hard currency for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and sometimes indulge in espionage and/or sabotage.
Sounds much better than “Amazon surveils keystrokes of its IT workers”!
This was also my takeaway. Sounds like a security nightmare if they are logging any data.
If you use a company-provided computer for work, then it’s safe to assume they’re already doing that.
The problem is that you don’t want to record important information like passwords so if they did log them, it’s another possible vector of loss. I e if someone got into that copy of the data
That’s a valid point.
Well it isn’t paranoia if North Korean impostors really are working in your company.
Yeah, hate it all you want. But risk scales with the amount of employees you have. At the scale of Amazon you have to do literally everything to minimise risk.