I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

A developer inspecting a take-home job interview project found it was actually a malware distribution operation, per Hacker News. The malware used git hooks—automation tools that run automatically in development workflows—to execute code on target machines. The discovery highlights a method for compromising developers through recruitment itself.

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