The North Korean Operation That Turned Remote Work Into a Massive Weapons Pipeline

Live streamed 24 Sept 2025...

Andy sits down with Bobbie Johnson, senior editor at Wired and an investigative journalist with deep experience covering technology, security, and digital culture.

Bobbie unpacks a startling new investigation into how North Korea has infiltrated Western tech companies through remote work schemes.

Using fake identities, stolen documents, and AI-powered tools to breeze through coding tests and interviews, North Korean operatives have managed to secure jobs at hundreds of U.S. companies.

With the help of facilitators inside the United States, these workers receive laptops, funnel salaries back to Pyongyang, and generate millions for the regime’s weapons programs.

The conversation explores how these tactics threaten both national security and private industry, why they’re so hard to detect, and what steps companies can take to guard against them.