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29 Apr, 8 tweets, 4 min read
Update. It seems that Argyle, who claims to have access to records on employment and work activities of 40 million workers, has created sites named "Workers United" or "Wage Compete" to phish user credentials of Fortune 500 companies to gain access to their payroll/HR systems.
As this thread by Kevin Beaumont shows, a range of shady websites offered $100 to $500 to workers who provide their credentials:
"By proceeding you're agreeing to Argyle's Legal Terms"
"Reverse engineering knowledge"

"Knowledge of bot and captcha bypass mitigation tactics"

"familiar with Android/iOS device verification frameworks ... and ways to bypass them"

This job posting suggests they are building scrapers to harvest worker data:
argyle.rippling-ats.com/job/219736/sof…
I guess, they use the credentials to gain initial access to the affected HR systems to develop crawlers that are able to continuously harvest data from those systems.

Do all those companies know that Argyle accesses - or claims to access - their systems?
argyle.com/coverage
Gridwise, an app that claims to be the "ultimate rideshare and delivery assistant", is selling "millions of anonymized [?] location, trip, and earnings records from ride-hail and delivery drivers" and it seems to utilize Argyle.
gridwise.io/analytics
gridwise.io/termsofservice
Gridwise is selling gig mobility data so that companies can "make better operational, investment, and strategic decisions".

Not exactly what a worker's "assistant" should do.
gridwise.io/analytics
Actually, Argyle is often listed as a startup from Lithuania, and btw. its co-founder and CTO was 'National Representative of Lithuania' at the 'NATO STO IST Panel', according to LinkedIn.

/cc Lithuanian data protection authority
map.startuplithuania.lt/companies/argy…
sifted.eu/lithuanian-sta…

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