As is ever the case, hackers are a devious old bunch, and this time, they're using your desire to finally get a job to stick a virus on your PC. Ironically named 'JobStealer', one Trojan virus is buried in a fake video conferencing app.
As pointed out by antivirus software Dr.Web, bad actors contact users looking for jobs and invite them to interview via a video conference website intended to look like a real one, which prompts users to download its software.
In many of these cases, the software has connected social media accounts to make it all seem real. Bad actors are also spoofing real sites like Webex to add legitimacy to their attacks. If you happen to get contacted by one of these scammers on Mac, the site will encourage you to even run the virus via the terminal or a disk image file that runs the terminal for you—a clear red flag.
The 'Jobstealer' virus is a pretty involved one that collects data on the system itself, its browser extensions, ...
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