Perfect Fit or Business Threat? How to Mitigate the Risk of Rogue Employees

Perfect Fit or Business Threat? How to Mitigate the Risk of Rogue Employees

Rogue employees present significant financial and cybersecurity risks to organizations. Rapid7 threat researchers and penetration testers are actively observing how malicious actors exploit hiring pipelines to infiltrate businesses. This blog highlights real-world tactics, including:

Insider Reconnaissance: Rogue applicants leveraging interviews to map office layouts, identify vulnerable devices, and even plant malware during site visits.Tech Tricks: The use of deepfake technology, AI-generated photos, and VoIP to fake identities, bypass background checks, and mask locations.North Korean Operations: State-sponsored actors posing as remote IT workers with fake resumes and stolen identities to fund illicit activities like missile development.Hiring Weaknesses: Gaps in hiring processes—such as 43% of organizations skipping background checks—leaving businesses vulnerable to exploitation.

Read on to discover how to fortify your hiring and onboarding practices against this business risk.

Understanding the threat

Rogue employees have long been an issue for hiring departments. The Occupational Fraud 2024: A Report to the Nations study reported worldwide losses of more than $3.1 billion from 1,921 fraud cases. Other studies suggest that a typical business may lose as much as 5% of their annual revenue due to this problem. Sadly, the days of “only” having to worry about employees who show up late every day, or tell a few small tales on their work history record, are but a distant memory.

While organizations have been aware of the broad risk from bogus hires for some years, many are playing catch-up with hitherto unknown cybersecurity implications, particularly when state-sponsored actors are at the helm. For example, the FBI issued warnings about remote North Korean workers sending funds to the r ..

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