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armcat • today at 3:16 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I actually got contacted by North Koreans posing as Japanese VC looking to partner in the Nordics. I have an agent that scans my emails and does the inverse filtering, suggests when I should take a look. This is because I get insane amount of cold inbound. But it also flags suspicious emails and uses network tools to find out info about the sender. It flagged that one as a NK account (I later confirmed it was already flagged on the watch list in various reddit channels). Everyone should be arming themselves with email filtering agents now. What I’m worried about is grandmas and grandpas and general ppl that are behind the tech curve.


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Duwensatzaj • today at 4:59 PM

Can you provide more information on your email filtering agent?

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randomNumber7 • today at 4:08 PM

How would the North Koreans profit from hacking grandma's PC?

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