Ep 825: The Real Risks Of Candidate Fraud

Remote hiring, freely available deepfake tools and harvested identities have created an opportunity that organized criminals are now taking seriously. State-backed operations are training workers to apply for remote roles using stolen credentials and proxy interviewers. The aim is the salary and access to source code, customer data and intellectual property once they are inside. Recruiters are the ones meeting these people first, and in most organizations they are assessing them with a background check and their own judgment while IT, InfoSec and legal are rarely involved. So how seriously should employers be treating this, and what does a credible response look like? My guest this week is Lauren Furey, Principal Product Manager at Proof, where she leads product work on candidate fraud and identity verification. In our conversation, Lauren explains how these attacks work, where hiring processes are most exposed, and what TA teams can do about it. In the interview, we discuss: Bots, deepfakes, identity harvesting and proxy interviewers The criminal motivations behind state-backed infiltration Why the background check is no longer enough on its own How much recruiters overestimate their ability to spot a fake Why remote hiring created the gaps bad actors exploit Building identity continuity through the hiring process Making fraud prevention a shared responsibility with IT and InfoSec The candidate experience trade-off and where to place verification Verifiable credentials and protecting candidates' own identities Practical first steps and what does the future look like? https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurennfurey/ https://www.proof.com Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts. Follow this podcast on Spotify.