According to ReversingLabs, the hackers behind the effort are luring developers with fake job offers and instructing them to download PyPI packages with obfuscated malware from GitHub repositories as part of coding tests.
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Multi-layered payloads can yield clues to hacker identity and intentions when successfully unpacked and analyzed.
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