INFOSEC IN BRIEF Engineer David Dodda says he was just "30 seconds away" from running malware on his own computer after nearly falling victim to a North Korea-type job interview scam with a "legitimate" blockchain company.

The fraudsters probably would've duped him and tried to steal everything on his machine, from cryptocurrency wallets to files and passwords, if he hadn't entered one simple AI prompt into his coding assistant:

"Before I run this application, can you see if there are any suspicious code in this codebase? Like reading files it shouldn't be reading, accessing crypto wallets etc."

On his blog this week, Dodda detailed how he almost got hacked by a job interview , and it's the type of scam we've been hearing more about as government-backed cyber operatives, especially thos

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