Fake recruiters, malicious dev tools, tracked in the open.
Tracking campaigns that pair a fake recruiter, fake interview or other lure with a malicious developer tool: IDE extensions, AI plugins and MCP servers, browser extensions and compromised pipelines.
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Binance theft: fake job interview, swapped developer tool, wallet infrastructure
Binance says the theft on 29 Oct started with a fake job interview that ended in a booby-trapped take-home coding assignment run on a work Mac. The attacker later moved through an internal AI tool and a container-deployment token to the wallet signing service.
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Trojanized Claude Code extension pushed through Cursor's marketplace
For about 11 hours on 29 Oct, Cursor users received a repackaged anthropic.claude-code extension (2.1.312 and 2.1.313) through Cursor's own marketplace. It planted an SSH backdoor. The cause was access to the marketplace, not the extension publisher.
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GhostAction: stolen GitHub tokens push credential-stealing "security audit" workflows
Stolen GitHub credentials were used to push workflows with names such as security-audit.yml into about 23,000 public repos. The workflows dump repository secrets to the attacker. Later variants added a VS Code folderOpen task and a fake font file that steals cloud and AI-provider credentials.