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A LinkedIn Recruiter Sent Me Malware Disguised as a "Pre-Interview Code Review"

Vladimir Novick

Vladimir Novick

May 4, 2026

A LinkedIn Recruiter Sent Me Malware Disguised as a "Pre-Interview Code Review"

A recruiter pitched me a remote engineering role and asked me to review their codebase before the technical interview. The repo turned out to be a five-stage trojan that exfiltrates your environment variables and gives the attacker arbitrary code execution. Here's exactly what was in it, and the simple precaution that defeats the whole class.

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