And it's traditionally called a "honeypot", not "sex warfare", but that is clearly a clickbait decision.

Robert Baer's book "See No Evil" goes into a lot of detail about how espionage actually works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_No_Evil_(Baer_book)

The popular image of seductive spies a la Bond girls is that they target senior government officials, businessmen and diplomats, not pasty IT geeks.

And the popular image of jewel thieves is that they universally drop down from the ceiling, instead of entering from a cherrypicker truck through a smashed window.

80% of gub'mnt stuff is in FedRAMP so you hit the IT nerds and have them talk to you all day about how they herd some sort of VM/container solution, and then drop a USB into their laptop while sleeping.

the actual Feds gets training about this but the contractors are made of swiss cheese and have tons of holes.

get on tinder near any military base and the number of attractive women of indeterminate russian/central asian/east asian extraction are far higher than you'd think for places like Yuma or Everett or Oklahoma

Businessmen and diplomats don't know the API keys.