Department of Vigilance · Internal Dispatch For professional eyes only
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Your remote position awaits, Comrade.Every move has a price.

One threat applies for the job. Two chairs, one case file. Built on FBI and CrowdStrike reporting on DPRK IT workers who steal data, extort victims and hold persistent access.

A new hire starts Monday. What can they reach? What do we know? What does it cost to be wrong? Comrades, get them onto the inside. Company, decide on evidence that may be noisy: cut the wrong hire and Exposure rises by 2; wait, and the operation gets further in.

New hireNo. 001
RoleBackend engineer Refsenthusiastic StartMonday
Unverified
New hireNo. 002
RoleDevOps engineer Refsenthusiastic StartMonday
Unverified
New hireNo. 003
RoleContract developer Refsenthusiastic StartMonday
Unverified
The case file: three revolutionary duties
1

The Interview

The references agree a little too quickly.

2

Onboarding

A laptop ships to a very patient address.

3

The First Month

Access spreads. A remote tool nobody in IT approved appears.

Two chairs, one case file

The Comrades' chair

PersonaGround CrewToolingMoney

Get hired. Stay hired. Reach what you came for: wages, data or keys.

The Company's chair

HREngineeringSecOpsFinance & Legal

Weigh the evidence. A wrong cut costs you; so does waiting.

One chair at a timeThe Incident Master plays the other side.Both chairs at onceTwo tables, one Incident Master, one debrief. Learning over winning.Swap and replayNew persona, new puzzle.Stop the linePoint on three. A tie: one sentence each, then vote again. Tie twice: no accusation.

The Chollimas

Chollima is CrowdStrike's tag for DPRK threat clusters; Famous Chollima is its name for the one tied to IT workers. A Chollima card is the cell's tradecraft label: known tools and tells.

The bench

The bench grades the file, not the flag. What does it do? Never who sent it.

Field notes from public sources

Bulletin of fair play. Judge the process, not the person. Nobody is a suspect because of an accent, a passport or a face. The joke is the propaganda voice, never the people.

Try it out at comradesandchollimas.com

Comrades & Chollimas
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