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Cybercrime Is Hiring: Recruiting AI, IoT, and Cloud Experts to Fuel Future Campaigns

ID: c20cff6e-db90-5cbb-8c76-a8009ca1012d

STIX ID: report--c20cff6e-db90-5cbb-8c76-a8009ca1012d

Feed Name: ReliaQuest Blog

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2025-08-21

Date Updated: 2026-04-29

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This report analyzes dark-web recruitment trends from Jan 2023–Jul 2025 showing cybercriminals increasingly hiring AI experts, English-speaking social engineers, and specialists in Azure, IoT, ClickFix execution, and hypervisors; it links recruitment spikes to operational surges (e.g., 850% ClickFix increase, $25M deepfake scam, IoT-based EDR bypass) and recommends cloud, identity, and social-engineering defenses.

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