Netcraft has observed a recent spike in recruitment scams, uncovering significant impact from three unique adversaries, each leveraging different tactics to target job seekers:
- Threat Actor #1 impersonates employers in the tech vertical using advance fee fraud (AFF) tactics – Celadonsoft & SoftServ
- Threat Actor #2 impersonates a logistics recruitment agency using similar AFF tactics: localized scams focused on 18 geographies & 63,000 people targeted in the U.S. alone – Picked Well
- Threat Actor #3 impersonates the Government of Singapore to steal victims’ personal identity number and Telegram account details
You can find the blog now live at https://www.netcraft.com/blog/diving-into-the-talent-pool-threat-actors-target-job-seekers-with-complex-recruitment-scams/.
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New Recruitment Scams: 3 Threat Actors Exploit Government of Singapore, US Logistics Recruiter, Digital Development Agenc
Netcraft has observed a recent spike in recruitment scams, uncovering significant impact from three unique adversaries, each leveraging different tactics to target job seekers:
You can find the blog now live at https://www.netcraft.com/blog/diving-into-the-talent-pool-threat-actors-target-job-seekers-with-complex-recruitment-scams/.
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