A North Korean agent applied for a job at a popular crypto firm: They tripped him up with a simple question about Halloween
fortune.com/crypto/2025/05/03/north-korean-applied-job-crypto-kraken-it-worker
The hiring team at Kraken, a U.S-based crypto exchange, noticed immediately that something was off about “Steven Smith,” a would-be IT worker who applied for a software engineering job in early October. But it wasn’t until they compared Smith’s email to a list of those suspected to be…
This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-05-03 10:00:00.