Ledger / 5 Jun 2025
OpenAI bans accounts tied to North Korea-style IT worker employment scheme
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OpenAI says behaviour was consistent with DPRK schemes but could not confirm location or nationality.
Actors used ChatGPT to mass-produce resumes and researched ways to bypass interview controls with VPNs and live-feed injectors. Details come from OpenAI's June 2025 report via press.
“OpenAI says it banned accounts potentially linked to N. Korea over deceptive employment scheme”Korea Herald
Sources
- OpenAI says it banned accounts potentially linked to N. Korea over deceptive employment schemeKorea Herald · 6 Jun 2025 · secondary source
- Disrupting malicious uses of AI: June 2025OpenAI · 5 Jun 2025 · primary source
- Disclosed
- 5 Jun 2025
- Activity
- 2025
- Actor
- Suspected DPRK-linked IT worker campaigns (nation state), as attributed by Korea Herald
- Nexus
- North Korea
- Targets
- Remote IT and software jobs worldwide
- What the AI did
- Social engineering, Fraud
- Model
- ChatGPT
- Model family
- OpenAI
- Model basis
- stated by researcher
- Autonomy
- assist
- Outcome
- Accounts banned.