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LinkedIn's Fake Recruitment Scheme Spreads New Spyware

Summary by medcom.id
This attack uses fake job recruitment communications on the professional platform LinkedIn as well as cross-platform spyware.|The change in tactics is evident in Mirage Kitten's decision to abandon native C, C++, or Go-based malware that only targets Windows.|Software developers have very high privileged access rights within corporate networks.
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Kaspersky uncovered the Mirage Kitten campaign that spread the NodeRabbit and PollCat RATs through fake coding tests on LinkedIn.

This attack uses fake job recruitment communications on the professional platform LinkedIn as well as cross-platform spyware.|The change in tactics is evident in Mirage Kitten's decision to abandon native C, C++, or Go-based malware that only targets Windows.|Software developers have very high privileged access rights within corporate networks.

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medcom.id broke the news in Indonesia on Friday, September 25, 2026.
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