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Developer-targeted social engineering

Fake recruiter outreach and interview coding challenges used to get engineers to execute attacker-supplied projects.

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Mirage Kitten ships Node.js RATs through fake LinkedIn coding challenges

Kaspersky found two cross-platform JavaScript RATs, NodeRabbit and PollCat, reaching engineers in aviation and fintech through fake recruiters, from a group that until now shipped native C, C++ and Go.

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Developer-targeted social engineering — Clarity Today