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Recruitment fraud

Scams that imitate hiring (job ads, recruiters, interviews and take-home assessments) to extract money, data or code execution from applicants.

Current clusters

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Trusting the repository author in VS Code runs the fake recruiter's task file

Microsoft's Defender Experts date the Contagious Interview campaign to December 2022. Its payload lands at the one hiring stage where a candidate is expected to clone and run a stranger's code. The same team tells employers to give staff a non-persistent VM for coding tests.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption35
Hype gap+8
Incentives58
Confidence62