Another Bunch of Muppets Downloading Random Shit From The Internet

So apparently some shit-for-brains developers are so desperate for a job that they’ll run any random crap a “recruiter” sends them. Some North Korean wankers figured this out and decided to weaponize human stupidity by posing as companies hiring Next.js developers.

These bottom-feeding scumbags send you a “technical assessment” that looks legit but is actually packed with more backdoors than a cheap brothel. You run their shitty npm install or execute their “test” code, and congratulations, you’ve just given some hermit kingdom hacker remote access to your box. And for what? A chance to write React components for a company that doesn’t fucking exist?

The Lazarus Group – because apparently naming yourself after a biblical zombie is intimidating – has been running this scam through fake LinkedIn profiles and GitHub repos. They dangle these plush dev jobs in front of you like a carrot, then steal your crypto wallets, source code, and probably your browser history showing how much time you spend on StackOverflow copying other people’s homework.

Here’s the kicker: the malware is designed to look like legitimate Next.js testing frameworks. So these code monkeys see “npm run test” and think “oh yeah, this is definitely not going to rm -rf my entire life savings.” Spoiler alert: it does. The packages install info-stealers that vacuum up your SSH keys, browser cookies, and cryptocurrency wallets faster than you can say “I should have listened to the sysadmin.”

Word to the wise, you gullible meatbags: if someone sends you a zip file full of JavaScript with more eval() statements than a therapy session, maybe don’t fucking run it on your production machine? Or your machine at all? Use a VM, you lazy bastards. Or better yet, get a real job where they don’t ask you to install random npm packages from recruiters whose English is shakier than a caffeine addict during withdrawal.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-nextjs-job-interview-tests-backdoor-developers-devices/

Reminds me of the time some luser in Marketing clicked on an “urgent invoice” link and infected the entire network with ransomware. I “accidentally” restored their files from the oldest, most corrupted backup I could find – the one from 1998 that had been sitting in a damp basement next to a decomposing rat. They lost three months of PowerPoint presentations. I lost nothing, and gained three weeks of peace and quiet while they cried in the server room. Trust no one, especially not if they promise you a job writing JavaScript.

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