Ledger / Jan 2025
Vidoc Security interviews two deepfake job candidates
Strong
Victim cofounder documents glitchy AI face and refusal of a hand-in-front-of-face test; North Korea link is suspicion only.
Two applicants hid behind deepfake avatars; the company nearly gave an offer to the first and caught the second live.
“two imposters hiding behind deepfake avatars almost succeeded in tricking your startup into hiring them”The Pragmatic Engineer
Sources
- AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortemThe Pragmatic Engineer · 11 Mar 2025 · secondary source
- I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicantThe Register · 11 Feb 2025 · secondary source
- Date
- Jan 2025
- Disclosed
- 11 Feb 2025
- Actor
- unknown (possible DPRK link) (unknown), as attributed by The Pragmatic Engineer
- Targets
- Vidoc Security Lab (hiring)
- What the AI did
- Deepfake, Social engineering
- Model
- unspecified voice-clone/deepfake tool
- Model family
- Deepfake / voice
- Model basis
- stated by victim
- Autonomy
- assist
- Outcome
- Blocked; second candidate confronted and recorded, no hire made.