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I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
A recruiter offering a high-paying Python developer position contacted this dev, who eventually discovered that the take-home assignment included malicious code designed to exploit the candidate's computer. After analyzing the project's structure and embedded scripts, it became clear that the attackers were using deceptive tactics to distribute malware disguised as a legitimate coding task.
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