It started with a warning.
I was scrolling through my feed when I stumbled upon an article on dev.to by Anderson Contreira: Warning to developers: A new wave of technical test scams is targeting devs. The premise was chilling—attackers were posing as recruiters, sending developers "take-home assignments" that contained hidden malware.
Curiosity got the better of me. I wanted to see exactly how these scams worked. I didn't want to just read about it; I wanted to dissect it.