OpenAI Feb 2025 — DPRK IT-worker accounts using ChatGPT for fake resumes and remote-work tasks
Date: 2025-02
Affected: OpenAI ChatGPT; Western tech firms
Attack vector: tool-abuse
Category: threat-report
Severity: High

OpenAI banned multiple clusters of ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT-worker schemes that used the model to draft resumes, cover letters, and bios; research US tech firms; and complete day-job software-engineering tasks at companies that unknowingly hired them.


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Architectural layers (MAESTRO):