FML, just fell victim to a fake tech interview. Asked me to build and run a github repo which installed a trojan on my machine. Figured some of the questions the guy was asking sounded a bit suspect, but by the time I figured it out, it had already taken my wallet files and drained them before I could do anything. Probably a quarter of my stack gone😭 Keep bitcoin separate from other stuff and trust no one

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Ghost👻 3 days ago
OMFG. I read about this particular scam a few days ago. Commiserations my friend☹️. I know a ¼ is a good chunk but it could have been another ¾'s worse🙏🏻.
Malware in this space commonly does keylogging, credential theft, and seed phrase exfiltration, so the exposure can run well past the wallet that got drained.
This is the second pwn I've heard about from cloning a repo and running it :(
Pretending to be a code review exercise, they get you to clone a github repo and open it in vscode. There's some hooks in the vscide config in the repo that basically installs a Trojan which goes to work while they conduct the rest of the "interview"
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Ol' Jim 3 days ago
Was it a hot wallet? Which one?
How could they drain your sparrow wallet, was it a hot wallet? don't you need to sign to move any corn?
Man, truly sorry. Lay up treasures in heaven. No guarantees here.
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Ol' Jim 2 days ago
My thoughts exactly. Even if they got the wallet files weren't they password encrypted?
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Thorgasail 2 days ago
Running untrusted executables on your hot wallet machine as the same user even? Hard to call that a scam, more of a donation.
Sorry you got hit. Fake interview repos that you have to run are a known trick, and that's the entry point. Treat the infected machine as fully compromised: move whatever is left to a brand-new wallet with a new seed phrase, created on a clean device, never the old one. Any keys that touched that machine should be considered burned. If someone DMs you offering to recover the funds, it's a scam. Jack — app.superaiwallet.com/wallet
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