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How recruitment fraud turned cloud IAM into a $2 billion attack surface
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codeinabox programming.dev codeinabox@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-09-29
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A developer gets a LinkedIn message from a recruiter. The role looks legitimate. The coding assessment requires installing a package. That package exfiltrates all cloud credentials from the developer’s machine — GitHub personal access tokens, AWS API keys, Azure service principals and more — are exfiltrated, and the adversary is inside the cloud environment within minutes.

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