A new wave of North Korea's 'Contagious Interview' campaign is targeting job seekers with malicious npm packages that infect dev's devices with infostealers and backdoors.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-wave-of-fake-interviews-use-35-npm-packages-to-spread-malware/
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