A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

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Author: lwhsiao

Date: 6/15/2026

Article Summary:
A LinkedIn recruiter sent a job applicant a GitHub repo with a backdoor that triggered when the applicant installed dependencies, and the applicant discovered the backdoor using a read-only agent.