North Korea Got Into 309 US Companies Through Fake Resumes. What Is Your Evidence Layer? In August 2025, the BBC published testimony from a North Korean defector who used hundreds of fake identities to land remote IT jobs across the US and Europe... Ron MaitraAug 18, 2026
Candidate Fraud Is Spreading Fast. Could You Prove Your Last Hire Was Even Real? “How did this person get past your initial screen?” The client’s voice crackled over the speakerphone, demanding an immediate answer after ... Ron MaitraAug 11, 2026
Resumes Lie Better Than Ever. Here Is Exactly Where They Get Caught Here is the count: 106. That is exactly how many ways a resume can misrepresent who a candidate actually is. Inflated titles. Fabricated tenures. Companies t... Ron MaitraAug 3, 2026
Resumes lie, candidates embellish, and hiring is broken at entry Gartner put a number to what hiring teams already sense. By 2028, 1 in 4 enterprise job candidates will be AI-generated. That is not a future problem. In mos... Ron MaitraJul 28, 2026
Your Shortlist Is Full of Resume Lies and Your ATS Has No Idea A recruiting team spends two weeks on a search. They surface a standout candidate. Strong background, great pedigree, glowing references listed right there o... Ron MaitraJul 24, 2026
Every Unverified Resume in Your Pipeline Is a Security Risk Congratulations on finding the absolute perfect remote developer on paper. Too bad they are currently running a second monitor where a real-time generative s... Ron MaitraJul 24, 2026
AI Did Not Just Help People Write Better Resumes. It Helped Them Lie Better. There was a version of this story where AI helped candidates. Better formatting. Cleaner language. Stronger articulation of real experience. That version exi... Ron MaitraJul 23, 2026
We Got Fooled. Here’s What Happens When a Resume Is a Complete Lie. Your next hire passed every screen. Sharp on the call. Polished resume. What nobody in that hiring loop knew: someone else answered those questions. The pers... Ron MaitraJul 23, 2026
Resumes Lie and Your ATS Believes Every Word Nobody expected hiring fraud to become a national security issue. Then the FBI started issuing warnings. Then KnowBe4 went public about the North Korean oper... Ron MaitraJul 22, 2026
