🚨 Something happened during a job search that I sat on for months. I'm talking about it now — because we built something about it. I was contacted for a blockchain role. Professional communication. Real company name. Proper GitHub repo. All the right signals. They sent a take-home technical task. I ran it on a cloud instance instead of my laptop. Good instinct, as it turned out. The actual code ended at line 46. Everything beyond that — all the way to line 258 — was a hidden payload: 🔑 SSH keys 🌍 Environment variables 🔐 Credentials and API keys 💀 Anything it could reach on a local machine Designed to look like nothing. Designed to run the moment I opened it on my own machine. I flagged it to the "recruiter." No response. And then I kept thinking: what if I'd just run it locally, like most people would? That question didn't go away. This attack pattern has a name. It's documented. It's ongoing. It specifically targets blockchain and Web3 developers — because running code during a technical interview is completely normal behaviour, and that normality has been weaponised. I wasn't the first. I won't be the last. So we built a response to it. @RTindex — the Risk & Threat Index — is live today. Paste a suspicious repo link or a recruiter conversation. Get a risk verdict in under 2 minutes — with a clear explanation of why, not just a flag. The full story, the technical breakdown, and the case that started all of this are on the blog. 🔗 rtidx.com This wouldn't exist without @piotrdz (product vision and trust) and @jan_defdone , who engineered RTIdx end-to-end. Jan's work is the product. The platform's analytical foundations draw from research by Prof. @ameerrahmati and Abisheka Pitumpe PhD at Stony Brook University's Ethos Security & Privacy Lab — connecting serious academic research on recruitment scam ecosystems to a tool developers can actually use in the moment. If you're in Web3, blockchain, or any developer community — share this. Someone in your network may already be targeted. The index gets stronger with every report. 🔗 rtidx.com #cybersecurity #web3 #blockchain #developerprotection #infosec #recruitmentscam #rtidx

Fake job offers are no longer obvious scams. They can start with a polished recruiter message, a credible role, and a normal-looking interview process. Then comes the “technical assignment.” We wrote up what happened in a real case: rtidx.com/research/i-almost-…

Fake recruiters are targeting developers with “technical assignments” that hide malware. RTidx helps you check suspicious recruiters and coding test repos before you run them. Paste the convo. Scan the repo. Get risk verdict. Stay safe in job search: rtidx.com

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Even though this book is about 20 years old, it's still a good starting point for anyone who wants to learn how to build databases. It just took me a couple of weeks to go through it. For the interested folks, the link is here: dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/fntd…

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Decentralised file transfer — no wallet friction, no jargon, just drag and drop. Tried @thedefdone team's freshly soft-launched haventransfer.com and it genuinely impressed me. Under the hood? The full power of @DataHaven_xyz — a decentralised storage L1. On the surface? Pure simplicity. User-first design done right. This is how Web3 products should be built. Abstract the complexity. Deliver the experience. Go try it 👉 haventransfer.com #Web3 #DecentralizedStorage #DataHaven #HavenTransfer

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