#“Raspberry Pi-based”

[johniac]

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 19th, 2025

[grungusdollar]

man. i think youtube has, for lack of a better term, softblocked my account from the rest of the website (probably unless i either remove my adblocker or use their app). and with revanced extended left to rot by its apparently jaded creator, at this rate im going to have to learn a bunch of technical coding shit if i want to keep using the internet without losing my mind. all because i commit the crime of not wanting to spend a significant portion of my free time being advertised at

[newkiqx]

Installed a sensor on my girl so i know when

[subzerocatalyst]

this... this is PEAK‼️‼️‼️‼️

The gremlins in my mind want to own a lil mini computer like this as if I we're some strange sci-fi novel character. To you beautiful humans who make stuff like this and know how to use raspberry pies, I love you. My fantasy to be a cyberpunk/lainecore/space girl is fuled by your mastery of this lil goobers

[svsembedded]

Rakshak - An IoT Based Wearable Device for Women Safety with Raspberry Pi PICO | GSM | GPS | ESP32-CAM | Smart wearable device for women safety using IoT- GSM GPS ESP32CAM Email Photo | Child

[kitto-paint]

Please Reblog, I'd like to design a cheap braille typewriter (prototyping by 3d printing, final design will be machined) I stumbled upon linked YouTube short and a thought: "designing 6/8 button typewriter is within my technical capabilities"

I have many design questions I wish I could test out

My roadblock is I don't know anyone who's visually impaired, and casually seeking random place to peddle my soon-to-be-invention is not something I'm capable of

Many design questions:

Paper type: what is minimal quality/density of paper for dots to be readable. Can thermal receipt paper be used for notes?

Embossed vs punched out: is that significant for the typewriter to not break paper? It's important for "undo", but that's pretty far in my building a typewriter plan

Typewriter size: My initial idea was something like a portable cash register with receipt paper spool and little tray for it to glide along (I quickly realized it's a bad design because it can't fit more than 7 characters, or I can make infinite scroll of a single line with questionable ergonomics). Ultimately is related to page size, so what would be best for it? A4 standard paper? Is being portable important?

Keyboard layout: Perkins Brallier have all it's buttons inline forming long row. Wouldn't single-hand keyboard in similar layout as braille dots be more convenient? (straight grid or mimicking angle of computer keyboard letters)

Typing feedback: should typed letter be instantly accessible and not obstructed by typewriter? Maybe typing with one hand and instantly proof-reading with another hand?

Typewriter or printer?: alternatively, I can make a little annoying-noise-making servo-powered printer that will punch out text. Arduino or Raspberry PI based (I have experience with both) It would be USB powered most benevolent printer, because it don't require ink to work

Thanks for reading! [I'm not transcribing my design scribble, because it's absolute dogshit, but it helped me formula requirements. I will add transcription to actually thought of designs]

Alternatively, if I'm tweaking right now and if that thing would be needed it would already exist, I'll go back to trying to get hired by random megacorp and that's the last time you hear of me talking about it 💀

[cookie-lore-keeper]

Is there a definitive list of all the cookie types? If so, could you post it?

There is. I've been avoiding it, because it has confused even me. But, I'll try 🫡

Categories of Biology

Please note: Multiple cookies of different flavors and ingredients can be in different categories! It's more common for cookies to be in multiple categories of biology instead if just one. Even so, flavors often overlap as well, even when it comes to simple biology.

Candy

Rock Candy

Popping Candy

Marshmallows

Fruit Rollups

Gum

Okchun

Gummies

Jelly (beans)

Licorice

Lollipops/Suckers

Sugar Glass

Peppermint Candy

Dairy

Butter

Cheese

Cream

Custard

Ice Cream

Milk

Pudding

Yogurt

Milkshakes

Frozen Foods

Literally any food that is frozen (pizza can be classified as frozen food if they were baked with frozen pizza

Ice

Ice cream

Popsicles

Fruits

Imma be so fr rn, I tried my damn hardest to categorize fruits based on their IRL categories, but it never worked bcuz even fruits in the same family are so drastically different. Raspberries and apples are both Rosacae fruits, yet there's obviously a difference in taste and texture there. So, imma just do what I was trying to avoid, and make biology posts on the individual fruits that we see. Not listing EVERY Fruit here btw bcuz that's stupid.

Squashes

Berries

Citrus Fruits

Melons

Fungi

Mushrooms

Truffles

Grains

Wheat

Rice

Oats

Barley

Corn

Buckwheat

Flour

Bread (own category)

Cake

Oatmeal

Crackers

Chips

Pasta

Cereal

Popcorn

Pancakes (in the bread category)

Waffles (in the bread category)

Granola

Noodles

Liquids/Drinks

Carbonated Drinks

Coffees

Juices

Lemonade

Milk

Chocolate Drinks

Tea

Milkshakes

Eggnog

Water

Pastries

Cakes

Cinoman rolls

Bread

Brownies

Muffins

Churros

Cream Puffs

Doughnuts

Créme Brûlée

Pies

Plants

Flowers/Flower Petals

Leaves

Fruits (such a big category and, despite being a subcategory, it's still its own category)

Roots

Vegetables

Nuts

Spices

Pollen

Powders

Flour

Powdered Sugar

Literally anything that has been crushed into a powder. A lot of spice cookies are also powdered cookies

Minerals

Salt

Metals

Neo-Cookies

Wafers

Macarons

Sauces

Hot Sauce

Ketchup

Barbecue

Mustard

Syrup

Molasses

Sea-Food

Fish

Lobsters

Caviar

Shrimp

Oysters

Seashells

Mollusks

Sugars

(Sugar by itself. Not foods that contain sugar)

Pure Sugars (like the ones you can buy at stores)

Cotton Candy

Sugae Glass

Vegetables

(Vegetables are a cooking category, not a plant category)

Peppers

Leafy Vegetables

Potatos

Carrots

Avocados

Squashes

Corn

Beans

Wafer Paper (despite its name, it actually comes from potatos)

Misc/Have their own category

Honey (very similar to syrups)

Eggs

Mushrooms

Candle wax

Feathers

Fur

Ink

Jam

Chocolate (as in the chocolate bars and stuff, not the flavoring)

Fire

Sprinkles

Coral

There's probably more, but like I said, this stuff gets confusing, and theres also a lot of food and ingredients. If you have anything you think I should add, please tell me

[phaeton-flier]

I think the comparison here is faulty because most technology doesn't need to last for decades and decades. There's not many things from the 70s I'd really want now (technology having gotten better in the meantime). And if you don't need to make it last 50 years, why pay extra to make it so?

A robot body designed to last decades could do so; you're running a ton of risk of parts going out of production or software being abandoned or what have you, but I do think the cost curve isn't as grim as grim as you're stating.

The other advantage is that all bio healthcare requires working with whatever shitty self-repair system you have. You can't hot swap parts, you have to provide one of a million upstream resources and hope the assholes on repair can deal with it without side effects.

everyone talks about the superiority of the machine and how having a robot body would be awesome but when i think about it i dont know of a single machine (least of all one complex enough to be worth being embodied in) that can last more than 20 years, let alone 80 or 90.

like, think about it, we humans spend quite a lot of time outside being exposed to humidity, pollen, dirt, grease and acidity from other people.

we move in a way prone to bumps and scratches. we trip one time and fall to the ground we would risk breaking potentially vital components like our hard drives or any screens we might need to use. our hinges would get worn down really fast due to material fatigue, our inner components would get corroded and really how easy would it be to replace all of that. we complain about how expensive healthcare is but i dont think it would be all that much better when it comes to buying replacement pieces or fixing our chasis or whatever. at least our bio body can fix itself for most minor wounds and such.

one might want to go one step above that and say "well it doesnt matter, my conciousness would be software and hosted online and therefore safe from all physical harm" but have you read the short story Lena by qntm? youd be exposed to being hacked, copied a million times, locked inside emulations of heaven or hell, suddenly the processes that codify your soul are not safely locked inside an unhackable brain, they are on the internet for the entire world to access and fuck with.

so yeah, think twice

[commodorez]

My entire life I've seen year over year performance increases from computers at about the same power draw, and it makes me wonder - would these developments also enable something with roughly the same computation power of a windows 98 or 2000 machine but with a lower overall power draw, such that you might be able to cram the computing power of a turn of the century workstation into the form factor and power draw of a pocket calculator, perhaps even solar powered?

Idk, maybe.

If you've seen the very small embedded hardware grade x86 processors, similar to what LGR demonstrated on this past week's episode on the Pixel x86, you'll see that these machines still take up a bit of power, certainly small enough to be at cellphone scale. The machines he demonstrated are attempting to replicate the power and functionality of 30 year old hardware, and aren't hyper-optimized for low power consumption. So you could probably make something relatively portable, you just wouldn't be at "pocket calculator" scale.

If you're willing to go outside of ~2000-era x86 computing, the answer is probably "pretty close" with a Raspberry Pi or one of the other modern ARM microcontroller. You could totally make some tiny little machines based on that, but it ain't gonna run Windows without an emulation layer.

I can't claim expertise on the subject of miniaturization, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

[apriltempleos]

october 1st 2024: drafts!

preacher: i'm attaching slightly improved versions of our original drafts, but i'll also include mine and scott's garbage sketches under the cut because i think they're a little bit funny

(image id available through tumblr's accessibility options)

this is a slightly revised version of my original concept for "APRIL".

the main functionality i wanted for "APRIL" was for her to be able to read out words from the templeOS god word app, and ideally without needing keyboard input – hence the microphone. ideally all of her parts are going to fit inside a hollowed out mannequin or doll, which will probably just be the torso, so that she's more portable. for the same reason, i want her to run off a power bank – i want to be able to take her places!

if we manage, we're going to give her an animated LED face which moves to indicate when she's speaking. the way i first pitched it, i wanted it to also change a bit depending on how she "felt" – for example, frowning if the environment was hotter than ideal for the raspberry pi to operate on. but that's a bit beyond our current scope right now. i don't think we even ordered a thermostat.

scott drew the following wiring diagrams based off my original sketch. here revised digitally for readability's sake.

(image id available through the tumblr accessibility options although i fear it's not very good in this case. feedback appreciated).

scott: I decided to go with the raspberry pi zero 2w because it's what I've got experience coding on, it's relatively cheap for the "brains" of the operation (heh) and can perform both tasks from the godword prophecy generation, speaker operation and led matrix operation simultaneously. Plus its small enough to keep the circuit lightweight and fit inside the initial mannequin design.

This drawing fits no kind of engineering standard by the way lol. It was an initial sketch closer to a wiring diagram to see how it'd physically setup and wrap my head around transforming it from mains power to being theoretically portable and running on powerbanks. Unfortunately the LED matrix is really fucking power hungry so needs its own power supply of really specific voltage and current draws hence all the converters.

Also because Im using the smaller and cheaper pi, as oppossed to a stronger system like the pi4, it doesn't have any audio out jack so I plan to use the micro usb for audio out which means yet again I need another adapter for a soundcard and usb to micro usb adapters and all that jazz. Usually sound out can be done through the GPIO pins but the LED matrix takes so many pins that I cant really take anything form them so I had to look for other ways of doing it. Plus this way I get to add a soundcard so if we wanna add microphone support or anything later on we can :)

(Also this is all a little obtuse because I'm trying to do it as much as plug and play and screw terminal style as possible rather than actually solder connections for ease of access and initial setup, but this also works for modular design and component swapping later too so its cool.)

preacher: another reason we're going with plug&play is becauuseeeeee i don't own a soldering iron 😭 it's ok. it's ok.

our silly initial drafts under the cut for your viewing pleasure.

preacher: these were made around 2 weeks ago, so about september 15th ish.

as you can see the first "APRIL" drawing was beautifully drawn with my fat fingers in the facebook messenger photo editor. i think it holds up. lol.

[landoftheocsmegablogformyocs]

Cookie Kingdom Ocs

Main Hero Group

Kala Masala Cookie

Charge Class

Fire

Indian/Nepali Inspired

She’s a party girl/dancer

She’s a big eater 

She went to Scovilla and lives in Dragon Valley

She will have a daughter fathered by Burning Spice (Tandoori Masala Cookie) in AU's where he's redeemed

She has a sword khadga as a weapon

Her older sister (Garam Masala Cookie) is the chieftess of the Masala Tribe who are allies with the Mala Tribe and even marries a relative of Mala Sauce Cookie to further ties.

She becomes a big sister figure to Capsaicin Cookie (he will later turn out to be Burning Spice’s son)

She is inspired by Durga/Kali/Pavarti/Sati.

She later finds out she’s the reincarnation of Piperine Cookie, former lover of Burning Spice and mother of Capsaicin

Headcanon voice actor: Liza Koshy

Croustade Cookie 

Lancer

Light

Defense Class

He went to Paladin Academy

Comes from a lineage of lancers

He is the youngest in his family

He becomes a brother figure to Kouign-Amann Cookie

Comes from the Creme Republic

He has a girlfriend named Scallop Cookie

Headcanon voice actor: Matt Shipman

Blue Raspberry Cookie 

Magical prodigy

Electricity 

Magic Class

Got on a scholarship 

He went to Parfaedia Institute 

He becomes a big brother figure to Prune Juice Cookie

Headcanon voice actor: Jeremy Jordan

Scallop Cookie

Ranged Class

Water

Like Croustade, she is from the Creme Republic. 

She joined the group after they decided after graduation to adventure together 

His parents don't approve of his relationship with her due to her being a sea cookie and lowly status

She comes from a fisher family

She uses nets as a weapon

Headcanon voice actor: Megan Shipman

Sweet Potato Pie Cookie

Southern Belle 

Healer Class

Earth 

Her father is the owner of a big company

She gives out pies that heals her teammates.

Inspired by Karin Kanzuki from Street Fighter and Lili Rochefort from Tekken 

She comes from the Sweethun Territories

Headcanon Voice Actor: Megan Hilty

(All of them are an adventuring group who travel the world and fight evil)

Affiliates Of Group

Plum Blossom Cookie            

Her country (Peko Peko Kingdom) was closed off for centuries until they started opening up again to other nations.

Wind

Bomber Class

She inspired by the Nadeshiko Yamato archetype

She is a princess and daughter of the shogun 

She becomes Sweet Potato Pie Cookie’s love interest

She uses a fan as a weapon

Headcanon Voice Actor: Sally Amaki

Chipotle Cookie

Ambush Class

Fire

She comes from the Fiesta Kingdom

She is inspired by Mexican culture

She speaks Spanish

She is inspired by Zoro and soldaderas

She uses a rapier as a weapon

She had a fling with Kala Masala Cookie

Headcanon Voice Actor: Carolina Ravassa

Enemies

Panch phoron Cookie

Charge Class

Fire

Kala Masala's evil aunt

She killed her sister and brother in law, while attempting to also kill her nieces so she could assume control of the tribe. However, the whole tribe fought her off and she and her followers fled to become members of the Cookies Of Darkness

She and her followers are are based on the Thuggee

She and her followers are worshippers of Burning Spice Cookie as the Great Destroyer. They call themselves "Soldiers of The Destroyer" and she herself as leader calls herself the "Bride Of The Destroyer"

She wields two katar as a weapon

She wishes to find something with the Cookies Of Darkness that can restore her youth so that Burning Spice Cookie could have more interest in her

She hates being reminded of her age

She would betray the Cookies Of Darkness to Burning Spice in a minute

Headcanon Voice Actor: Anjali Bhimani

Puits d'amour Cookie

Defense Class

Light

Croustade Cookie's ex-fiance

She hates Scallop cookie with a passion

She is classist and racist towards sea cookies

She wields a saber

She preppers her language with French word

She is very seductive and sadistic

She has minions that follow her commands

She doesn't officially join the Cookies Of Darkness but she does make ties with them so that she can get back at her fiance

Headcanon Voice Actor: Chloé Hollings

Pomelo Cookie

Magic Class

Electricity

He was a rival and bully to Blue Raspberry Cookie

He came from a more prestigious family of magic users which he lorded over Blue Raspberry who got on scholarship

He eventually got expelled due to a stunt that almost got Blue Raspberry crumbled

He's still holds a grudge against him for that

His weapon is a wand with the shape of a pomelo at the end of it

He decides to study dark magic so that he can show Blue Raspberry Cookie he's better

He eventually joins the Cookies Of Darkness

Headcanon Voice Actor: Clifford Chapin

Other Oc's

Sweet Choco Cookie

Charge Class

Darkness

Deceased wife of Dark Cacao Cookie and mother of Dark Choco Cookie

She was a taekwondo master

In contrast with how stoic and serious her husband and son are, she was loud, hammy, and hot-blooded

She died due to a illness she had since childhood

She fought First Choco Cookie and won her respect

She was friends with the Second Watcher and Chocolate Bark Cookie when she was alive

Due to her reputation as a taekwondo master, her skills earned her interest from Cacao and had her inducted into the watchers

If she had lived she would have sided against Cacao to kill their son and it would have put their marriage on the rocks

She had a motherly side plait hairstyle

Headcanon Voice Actor: Stephanie Young

Berry Punch Cookie

Defense Class

Steel 

Father Of Royal Berry

Deceased Husband Of Hollyberry Cookie

His clan is named the Berry Punch House who fell due to infighting and treachery

He became a warrior under his future wife in order to reclaim honor to a house that had fallen due to division

His house was inspired by the House of Medici

His weapon was a halberd

He was shorter than his wife

He died protecting his son

A big berry juice lover like his wife

Headcanon Voice Actor: Mick Lauer

Custard Cream The Second 

Healer

Light

Son Of Premier Custard Cookie

Nephew Of Custard Cookie

Grew up on stories of Pure Vanilla Cookie and inspired to be like him

Married to a woman named Pot De Creme Cookie 

He lived in the area that the Vanilla Kingdom used to be with his father

He never liked his uncle, Custard Cookie

He knew about Clotted Creme Cookie and felt sorry for how his uncle treated him

He and his wife died in an incident where they were journeying to Creme Republic and their mode of transportation was destroyed. 

Headcannon Voice Actor: Johnny Yong Bosch

Mud Pie Cookie

Magic 

Earth

Member of the Cookies Of Darkness Necromancer 

Resurrects Rowanberry and Sweet Choco to be his minions

Ever since he was young he was always interest in resurrecting the dead and black magic

He was originally a professor from the Parfaedia Academy 

He was originally from Mud Town in the Creme Republic then moved to Parfaedia Academy for better opportunities

Headcanon Voice Actor: Jerry Jewell

Amora (The Witch Of Love)  / Sweetheart Cookie

Bomber

Light

The apprentice to the witch that baked Gingerbrave, Strawberry Cookie, and Wizard cookie

She and her mistress have a not so good relationship with one another

She questions the morality of making and eating sapient creatures

She decides to break from her mistress and adventure into earthbread to find out more about cookiekind

She eventually meets and falls for Black Forest Cookie

She will later reveal to her that she’s really a witch and helps her leave the cult and fulfill her dreams of being married to a witch

She’s studied past witches creation of cookies including the ones who created the Beast Cookies

[voltdragoon]

YIPPE YAHOO I was tagged my @stagejakkal let'sa fucking GO (users you'd like to get to know better)

LAST SONG:: communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate NOW (it's communicate by BT. genuinely wildly underrated song)

LAST BOOK:: unfortunately haven't finished it but All Systems Red by Martha Wells

LAST MOVIE:: I think. This would have been Wicked? When it was in theaters? I will be honest I do not watch movies often

LAST GAME:: Pokemon Legends Arceus!!! I just started playing it a few days ago. Here's me freaking out about this (very cute) wurmple and then forgetting the button for throwing a pokeball

LAST TV SHOW:: as much as I want to say it was Severance, it was not. It was the Mystery Dungeon episodes of the pokemon anime heeho

SWEET/SAVORY/SPICY:: real shit i am crazy for all three,,, but savory is my deal. I love savory flavors so so so much I am pretty much always craving salt and ramen and meats and whatnot. Although I ALSO love spicy, and I love a good blue raspberry-type candy sweet. (I do not like pastries and cakes and pies, usually. Shits gotta be unnatural for me to consume it)

RELATIONSHIP:: I gotta girlfriend!!! :D I talk about her a TON irl but she's the love of my life and also my like, partner in Silly Bits.

FAVORITE COLOR:: Lime/highlighter/neon green, easily. The more neon, the better!!! Although, I think lime green is enhanced by the presence of a neon purple. Like they go better together. That being said I also love love love cyan. And neon yellow.

LAST INTERNET SEARCH:: the true answer is Backloggd, because I was trying to get to backloggd to update my gaming journal from the past few days. The more interesting, although not true, answer is "bagworm." I'm fascinated by burmy and wanted to see what it was based off of. It's based off of a bagworm. Here's a picture of peeled/naked burmy because I love. It

TAGGING:: @sharkchimedes @radish-vendetta @aviandaleks @fangs-4-fags @backlitrabbit @fairybumpkin @cosmic-cd @eternally-a-dreamer

+ anyone else who wants to do it! I'm shy about tagging so if you see this, consider it an open invitation!

[svsembedded]

Colour Recognition Based Wireless Object Tracking🤖Robot Using Raspberry Pi Pico with OpenCV

[nixcraft]

Bareboat Necessities (BBN) OS is free an open source Linux distribution for sailing and boating. With BBN OS you can build a central boat computer. BBN OS is free and open source based upon Linux. It needs Raspberry Pi 4 or higher. Here are the GUI screenshots for Linux distribution for boating. Project home https://bareboat-necessities.github.io

[adafruit]

🎉New Pico 2 W just dropped - and CircuitPython is ready to go!🎉

We just got the OK to put the Pico 2 W in the shop. You can pick it up at

, and you might be wondering: hey, do you have CircuitPython built for it? The answer is YES! We have secretly added support, and v9.1.2 has a build ready. We'll be adding it to the

downloads page shortly, but if you've got one in hand before launch somehow, you can check out the builds in the Absolute Latest S3 Bucket

the pico 2w is a great upgrade with twice the speed, twice the SRAM and twice the flash memory, solving many frustrations folks had with the original Pico W.

[mariacallous]

KnowBe4, a US-based security vendor, revealed that it unwittingly hired a North Korean hacker who attempted to load malware into the company's network. KnowBe4 CEO and founder Stu Sjouwerman described the incident in a blog post this week, calling it a cautionary tale that was fortunately detected before causing any major problems.

"First of all: No illegal access was gained, and no data was lost, compromised, or exfiltrated on any KnowBe4 systems," Sjouwerman wrote. “This is not a data breach notification, there was none. See it as an organizational learning moment I am sharing with you. If it can happen to us, it can happen to almost anyone. Don't let it happen to you.”

KnowBe4 said it was looking for a software engineer for its internal IT AI team. The firm hired a person who, it turns out, was from North Korea and was "using a valid but stolen US-based identity" and a photo that was "enhanced" by artificial intelligence. There is now an active FBI investigation amid suspicion that the worker is what KnowBe4's blog post called "an Insider Threat/Nation State Actor."

KnowBe4 operates in 11 countries and is headquartered in Florida. It provides security awareness training, including phishing security tests, to corporate customers. If you occasionally receive a fake phishing email from your employer, you might be working for a company that uses the KnowBe4 service to test its employees' ability to spot scams.

Person Passed Background Check and Video Interviews

KnowBe4 hired the North Korean hacker through its usual process. "We posted the job, received résumés, conducted interviews, performed background checks, verified references, and hired the person. We sent them their Mac workstation, and the moment it was received, it immediately started to load malware," the company said.

Even though the photo provided to HR was fake, the person who was interviewed for the job apparently looked enough like it to pass. KnowBe4's HR team "conducted four video conference based interviews on separate occasions, confirming the individual matched the photo provided on their application," the post said. "Additionally, a background check and all other standard pre-hiring checks were performed and came back clear due to the stolen identity being used. This was a real person using a valid but stolen US-based identity. The picture was AI 'enhanced.'"

The two images at the top of this story are a stock photo and what KnowBe4 says is the AI fake based on the stock photo. The stock photo is on the left, and the AI fake is on the right.

The employee, referred to as "XXXX" in the blog post, was hired as a principal software engineer. The new hire's suspicious activities were flagged by security software, leading KnowBe4's Security Operations Center (SOC) to investigate:

On July 15, 2024, a series of suspicious activities were detected on the user beginning at 9:55 pm EST. When these alerts came in KnowBe4's SOC team reached out to the user to inquire about the anomalous activity and possible cause. XXXX responded to SOC that he was following steps on his router guide to troubleshoot a speed issue and that it may have caused a compromise. The attacker performed various actions to manipulate session history files, transfer potentially harmful files, and execute unauthorized software. He used a Raspberry Pi to download the malware. SOC attempted to get more details from XXXX including getting him on a call. XXXX stated he was unavailable for a call and later became unresponsive. At around 10:20 pm EST SOC contained XXXX's device.

“Fake IT Worker From North Korea”

The SOC analysis indicated that the loading of malware "may have been intentional by the user," and the group "suspected he may be an Insider Threat/Nation State Actor," the blog post said.

"We shared the collected data with our friends at Mandiant, a leading global cybersecurity expert, and the FBI, to corroborate our initial findings. It turns out this was a fake IT worker from North Korea," Sjouwerman wrote.

KnowBe4 said it can't provide much detail because of the active FBI investigation. But the person hired for the job may have logged into the company computer remotely from North Korea, Sjouwerman explained:

How this works is that the fake worker asks to get their workstation sent to an address that is basically an "IT mule laptop farm." They then VPN in from where they really physically are (North Korea or over the border in China) and work the night shift so that they seem to be working in US daytime. The scam is that they are actually doing the work, getting paid well, and give a large amount to North Korea to fund their illegal programs. I don't have to tell you about the severe risk of this. It's good we have new employees in a highly restricted area when they start, and have no access to production systems. Our controls caught it, but that was sure a learning moment that I am happy to share with everyone.