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Job seekers are advised to be extra vigilant as criminals are now targeting people on recruitment websites to trick them into downloading bogus interview software.  One individual was invited on LinkedIn by a fake recruiter to participate in an interview process and subsequently downloaded a document that appeared normal, but which contained malicious software.  Within hours, hackers had drained his cryptocurrency accounts of £18,000 in savings and vanished completely.[1]

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DEV#POPPER is a social engineering campaign that has been tracked recently by the Securonix Threat Research team.  Social engineering is a topic we have covered many times, but ultimately what it boils down to is that social engineering attacks are generally geared towards tricking victims into compromising themselves.  With that in mind, the primary target for the DEV#POPPER campaign appears to be software developers who are looking for work. 

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