I was asked to install malware during a fake interview

My experience with Contagious Interviews (Malware delivered through fake developer job interviews)Once or twice a month, I get a reach out to join as a technical advisor. I got two in the last month, except both were fake and meant to install malware on my machine! Both had a similar script. Someone reached out over LinkedIn to join their team as a technical advisor. Then they share a link to their code respository - without even asking me to sign an NDA or adding me to their org! Then I was asked to try out the code where doing npm install alone would have triggered the malware. Here are the stories in detail. First interview: reach out for a technical advisor I got a reach out on LinkedIn by a European Software Engineer Johan Bulenes, to become a technical advisor for their web3 project. We spoke, and then he scheduled a meeting with the hiring manager, Steve Bullard. The meeting was going fine for the first 5 minutes. He showed some Figma mocks. Then he sent me a link to a repo…