Half of remote IT job applications now carry North Korean fraud patterns, startup Endorsed finds | Fortune0

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• September 1, 2026

David Head is CEO of Endorsed, a San Francisco identity verification startup that uses AI to screen candidates. That task includes detecting signs of potential imposters and fraudsters, which these days includes a torrent of North Korean operatives posing as IT workers, who over the past several years have snuck into hundreds of U.S. companies.