Evan Ratliff
@evrat.bsky.social
Journalist. Host of SHELL GAME, author of THE MASTERMIND. Dispirited to be here.
Ok, SCOOP: Public cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks (
@paloaltontwks.bsky.social , PANW), which regularly presents itself as the expert on the hiring of North Korean IT workers, itself unwittingly hired nine North Korean agents, a fact it has never revealed:
@paloaltontwks.bsky.social , PANW), which regularly presents itself as the expert on the hiring of North Korean IT workers, itself unwittingly hired nine North Korean agents, a fact it has never revealed:
New from me: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They’ve all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. For Bloomberg BW, I delved into the scheme, with access to an American facilitator who enabled it: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Confessions of a Laptop Farmer: How an American Helped North Korea’s Wild Remote Worker Scheme
Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s US pawns tells all.
www.bloomberg.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Ok, SCOOP: Public cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks (
@paloaltontwks.bsky.social , PANW), which regularly presents itself as the expert on the hiring of North Korean IT workers, itself unwittingly hired nine North Korean agents, a fact it has never revealed:
@paloaltontwks.bsky.social , PANW), which regularly presents itself as the expert on the hiring of North Korean IT workers, itself unwittingly hired nine North Korean agents, a fact it has never revealed:
Reposted by Evan Ratliff
New from me: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They’ve all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. For Bloomberg BW, I delved into the scheme, with access to an American facilitator who enabled it: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Confessions of a Laptop Farmer: How an American Helped North Korea’s Wild Remote Worker Scheme
Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s US pawns tells all.
www.bloomberg.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
New from me: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They’ve all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. For Bloomberg BW, I delved into the scheme, with access to an American facilitator who enabled it: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
New from me: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They’ve all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. For Bloomberg BW, I delved into the scheme, with access to an American facilitator who enabled it: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Confessions of a Laptop Farmer: How an American Helped North Korea’s Wild Remote Worker Scheme
Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s US pawns tells all.
www.bloomberg.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
New from me: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They’ve all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. For Bloomberg BW, I delved into the scheme, with access to an American facilitator who enabled it: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
For the last 2 years, for WIRED, I've been on the trail of the Zizians, gifted young people who set out to save the world and ended up enveloped in violence and death. You may have seen headlines about them. This is their story, based on years of reporting in real time: www.wired.com/story/deliri...
The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians
A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.
www.wired.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
For the last 2 years, for WIRED, I've been on the trail of the Zizians, gifted young people who set out to save the world and ended up enveloped in violence and death. You may have seen headlines about them. This is their story, based on years of reporting in real time: www.wired.com/story/deliri...
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The fatal shooting of a US border patrol agent in Vermont. The stabbing death of a landlord in California. An elderly couple murdered in Pennsylvania. Who are the so-called Zizians, the group allegedly linked to all these killings? buff.ly/3ENqfa5
The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians
A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.
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February 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The fatal shooting of a US border patrol agent in Vermont. The stabbing death of a landlord in California. An elderly couple murdered in Pennsylvania. Who are the so-called Zizians, the group allegedly linked to all these killings? buff.ly/3ENqfa5
Reposted by Evan Ratliff
A group of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.
This is the delirious, violent, impossible true story of the Zizians:
www.wired.com/story/deliri...
This is the delirious, violent, impossible true story of the Zizians:
www.wired.com/story/deliri...
The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians
A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.
www.wired.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A group of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.
This is the delirious, violent, impossible true story of the Zizians:
www.wired.com/story/deliri...
This is the delirious, violent, impossible true story of the Zizians:
www.wired.com/story/deliri...
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Have we reflected at all on how Twitter was mass-liquifying brains well before Musk? How it incentivized otherwise smart, talented people to devote countless hours to honing their dunking, outrage farming, and shitposting skills? I get why they want a new spot to use them, but why do the rest of us?
November 21, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Have we reflected at all on how Twitter was mass-liquifying brains well before Musk? How it incentivized otherwise smart, talented people to devote countless hours to honing their dunking, outrage farming, and shitposting skills? I get why they want a new spot to use them, but why do the rest of us?
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Twitter was always a pyramid scheme with attention as its currency. Coming here feels like saying "hey everybody check out this new venture, same returns we used to get on the old one, no downside!" Instead of "damn, got conned, lost a fortune, gotta be smarter."
November 21, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Twitter was always a pyramid scheme with attention as its currency. Coming here feels like saying "hey everybody check out this new venture, same returns we used to get on the old one, no downside!" Instead of "damn, got conned, lost a fortune, gotta be smarter."
Sure, I'll type into this box, good as any other typing box. But with respect to all who're here, I have some... reservations.
November 21, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Sure, I'll type into this box, good as any other typing box. But with respect to all who're here, I have some... reservations.