North Korean hackers target Python devs with malware disguised as coding tests — hack has been underway for a year - eviltoast

Fake Python job opportunities used to attack programmers

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    6 days ago

    For anyone who’s brain is stuck in QA mode, they mean “coding skills test,” not some tool to test code.

    I read the entire article with the wrong paradigm and got confused when I didn’t see the vector for infection.

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    Strange. When I shared the permalink of this Lemmy post on Discord, it embedded the wrong title and thumbnail…

    “After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share”

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      6 days ago

      I noticed this today too, no idea what is going on. Need to reach out to the instance admin, since it’s only happening on my instance as far as I can see.