It started with a work offer. Last year, the blockchain crime-detection firm Crystal Intelligence’s then-vice president of engineering received a LinkedIn message from a man asking if he would be up for some freelance web development.
The VP quickly grew suspicious. He knew that North Korean hackers known as Contagious Interview regularly use fake job offers to scam targets out of their cryptocurrency. Since this “job” involved running code from GitHub, he decided to check it…

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