From fake interviews to malicious repositories: Disrupting Contagious Interview

Software developers and IT professionals are increasingly being targeted through fraudulent recruitment processes that exploit their trust in established development platforms. Candidates are invited to complete seemingly legitimate coding assessments hosted in publicly accessible repositories on services such as Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab. The repositories appear to be fully developed applications, with thousands of lines of plausible-looking code and malicious payloads concealed in on…