Nicole Perlroth
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463 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Nicole Perlroth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that usually weeds him out quite quickly.
But, you know, in this case, they hired him deliberately and they sent him a laptop that had spyware on it.
And this guy that they hired basically logged into his Discord account.
And so they were able to get into his Discord account.
And it turns out that's where they were managing their whole backend operation.
And it was this entire cell.
So the security farm hired a North Korean that was using an American to host his laptop in Florida.
Got it.
So they could see through the camera that they were sitting in a basically like container store type closet somewhere in Florida.
And then they sent him something that could cut through his VPN and show that actually he was logging in from China, which is where a lot of these North Korean IT workers are based.
And then through this guy's own credentials that he stored in his Gmail account, they were able to get into this Discord channel where they organized their whole cell operations.
And it was one cell of 22 people.
But the pertinent thing is they were only able to keep this guy for three months because they couldn't actually pay him because that would be against sanctions.
And just in those three months that they had access to this Discord channel, this one cell of 22 North Korean fake IT workers applied to 160,000 jobs just in the United States.
And that's when I realized the scale of this.
The scale of this is insane.
And the goal is to steal.
Fuck up or steal?
The goal is to make a paycheck.
So the goal is initially when the Mandients of the world would come in and triage these cases, they would look, you know, did they plant malware?
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