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Fake CrowdStrike job offer emails target devs with crypto miners

CrowdStrike is warning that a phishing campaign is impersonating the cybersecurity company in fake job offer emails to trick targets into infecting themselves with a Monero cryptocurrency miner (XMRig). The company discovered the malicious campaign on January 7, 2025, and based on the phishing email’s content, it likely didn’t start much earlier. The attack starts with a phishing email sent…