The Engineer Who Never Existed — Deepfake Remote Hire — severe-but-plausible scenario — ITOL

Vector: People & Insider · Severity: severe

A remote developer hired through a staffing vendor passed four video interviews. The face was a real-time deepfake, the laptop sits in a Texas 'laptop farm', and the worker is in Pyongyang. Eighteen months in, the FBI calls. The bank now holds a sanctions problem, a code-integrity problem and a workforce-identity problem at once.