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The 30-Minute Job Interview That Steals Your Entire Hard Drive
If you're looking for freelance development work on Reddit, LinkedIn, Upwork, or similar platforms, be careful. Scammers are increasingly disguising malware as coding assessments and technical interviews. What appears to be a simple GitHub repository for a 30-minute coding test may actually be an attempt to get you to execute malicious code on your own machine.
The setup looks completely legitimate. A recruiter or startup founder reaches out with what appears to be a freelance opportunity. The interview
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Tagged coding, developer, downloads, freelancer, GitHub, linkedin, malicious code, malware, phishing, plugins, reddit, reputation, sandbox, scammer, tech interviews, third-party code, third-party plugins, trust, upwork, virtual machines, vm
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