To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

By Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth | Pod People

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Season 2 coming June 9. American companies are being infiltrated—not by hackers breaking in, but by workers.  Thousands of North Korean operatives are applying to jobs across the U.S.—and getting them. They are embedding themselves at Fortune 500 companies. Government agencies. Critical infrastructure. Even the firms tasked with stopping this threat. To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll is a first-of-its-kind audio documentary exposing this global labor pipeline—one that is quietly funneling hundreds of millions of dollars a year back to the regime, and its nuclear weapons program.  Host Nicole Perlroth, bestselling author and former lead cybersecurity and digital espionage reporter for The New York Times, takes listeners inside this hidden network—from a rare, inside look at a North Korean IT worker on the job, to interviews with defectors who escaped it, to knocking on the doors of Americans hosting “laptop farms” on North Korea's behalf. Along the way, the series reveals how this playbook is creating a hiring freeze for American workers, in a challenging job market. And how it has metastasized—adopted by cybercriminal groups and fraud networks around the world—blurring the line between nation-state espionage and organized crime. To Catch a Thief is co-produced by Nicole Perlroth and Rubrik in partnership with Pod People. 

Episode Date
OUT OF BAND | The Breaking Point: Inside Mythos' Zero-Day Machine with Anthropic's Nicholas Carlini
May 04, 2026
Ep 9: The New Frontline
May 29, 2025
Ep 8: Living Off The Land
May 05, 2025
Ep 7: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Apr 28, 2025
Ep 6: The Gunslingers
Apr 14, 2025
Ep 5: A Cyber Detente
Apr 07, 2025
Ep 4: Naming and Shaming
Mar 31, 2025
BONUS: Live Panel with Top China & Cyber Experts at The New York Stock Exchange
Mar 27, 2025
Ep 3: The Most Dangerous Time in American History
Mar 24, 2025
Ep 2: Then They Came for Us
Mar 17, 2025
Ep 1: The Five Poisons
Mar 17, 2025
Coming Soon - To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Mar 04, 2025