Comment by fuzzzerd

Comment by fuzzzerd 19 hours ago

Living up to your screen name I see, but in all seriousness, I fully agree. The average person running the laptops in a spare bedroom may have no idea the scope of what they're involved with. Especially if they're being duped as well.

Imagine a non technical person being told they're helping run an "edge data center, close to the users. Running our laptops helps Netflix/facebook/etc (insert big tech name of your choice) run faster for you and your neighbors and well pay you to do it."

Easy to imagine a non technical person buying that lie.

alganet 16 hours ago

I'm having a hard time understanding your imagined scenario.

Can you please explain it better?

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fuzzzerd 13 hours ago

NK "fake employee" finds a non technical American to run their laptop farm by lying to them that running these laptops is helping make their access to some service faster.

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- alganet 13 hours ago
  
  Sounds very convoluted.
  I'm sure many, many countries have botnets. I have a bunch of those countries which I consider irresponsible and wreckless in my radar, not only north korea.
  
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  NitpickLawyer 10 hours ago
  
  These aren't botnets in the traditional sense. These operations need a US-based laptop (they receive it by mail, from the "target" corporation upon employment) and they also need the mini-kvm device to be plugged in. Then the remote agents connect via that kvm, to make detection harder. To an enterprise IDS/IPS the laptop seems connected from a residential, US IP address (expected).
  They've already arrested some people involved in this, they have devices as evidence. It's pretty well documented at this point.
  
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