Posts tagged with #privacy

When you apply for a job, your resume travels a long road: through ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems), recruiter inboxes, internal Slack or Telegram chats, and finally onto hiring managers' local drives. Most candidates meticulously refine every single word in their CV text but completely forget about the hidden layer of data — **metadata**.

With the rise of distributed teams and remote work, the job market has encountered a new threat—high-tech job scams and recruitment phishing. Attackers masquerade as recruiters from well-known companies to collect job seekers' personal data, gain access to their financial credentials, or compromise their devices to use them as staging grounds for attacks on corporate networks (APT campaigns targeting SRE, DevOps, and developers).