# The Take-Home Repo That Runs Malware on Open

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Candidate · software · via r/recruitinghell

A candidate warns that a take-home coding assignment sent to them was booby-trapped. Opening the project in an editor triggered a build that pulled a remote script and piped it straight into the shell. The repo has been reported and the post circulated as a warning: do not run a take-home from an employer you have not verified.

*Source: [r/recruitinghell · 975 upvotes, 30 comments · 4d old](https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/1wik4na/fake_coding_assignment_repo_contains_a_hidden/)*
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