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North Korean Hires and
Help Desk Impersonators:

A CISO's Guide to Identity Impersonation Detection

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Voice phishing is now the #1 initial infection vector for cloud compromises, per Mandiant M-Trends 2026. The reason it works is that it doesn't touch the login. Scattered Spider calls the help desk and walks out with a password reset. DPRK IT workers operate from attacker-controlled infrastructure during live interviews and land roles inside Fortune 500 engineering teams. In both cases, no authentication control was bypassed because no authentication control was in the path.

Hear from Sean Sosnowski (SACR Research), Fred Hamilton (CISO, BHG Inc.), and Noam Awadish (co-founder, imper.ai) on what's actually working against these attacks, where verification is breaking down across Security, IT, HR, and Talent Acquisition, and what the controls being built for this layer look like in practice.

You'll leave with:

  • A practitioner's view from Fred Hamilton on defending the help desk and the hiring pipeline inside a real security program
  • Sean Sosnowski's framing of Social Engineering Identity Defense (SEID), the workflow-layer category SACR is tracking as authentication continues to push attackers toward recovery and onboarding paths
  • A specific look at why document-and-selfie verification missed the four DPRK-affiliated candidates inper.ai detected across 600 remote interviews in Q1 2026, and what infrastructure-layer detection surfaces during a live session

Built for CISOs, IAM and IT leaders, and security architects defining how workforce identity verification fits into their stack.

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Fred Hamilton
CISO, BHG Financial

Fred Hamilton is the Chief Information Security Officer at BHG Financial, responsible for leading the Information Security Program to protect customer, partner, and company data while driving strategy across governance, compliance, identity management, and security operations. He brings more than 26 years of experience across banking, government, retail, and fintech, and is an active industry contributor, having served on multiple security advisory boards and advised local industry groups.
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Sean Sosnowski
Analyst, SACR

Sean Sosnowski is the Research Director at SACR, where he leads research and advisory across cloud and application security, identity security, data and AI security, and security operations. He brings nearly a decade of intelligence analysis experience from the United States Marine Corps, specializing in transforming complex data into actionable insights for strategic decision-making.
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Noam Awadish
CEO, imper.ai

Noam Awadish is the Co-Founder and CEO of imper.ai, a leader in real-time, GenAI-based social engineering attack prevention. With over a decade of experience at Unit 8200, Noam has developed a deep attacker mindset, and has held key roles such as Head of Initial Access and Chief of Staff for Autonomous Vehicle Programs at Mobileye (NASDAQ: MBLY). He blends deep technical expertise with sharp strategic vision, and is committed to driving groundbreaking advancements in cybersecurity.

 

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