30,000 Computers Were Infected Through Fake Job Interviews. Your Employee May Not Be the Real Target
FBI-Led Advisory Human Risk September 2026 · 7 min read Your employee gets a message from a recruiter. The job looks legitimate. The interview is virtual. Near the end, the recruiter sends over a coding exercise, or the video call conveniently glitches and they're asked to run a quick fix. They do. There was never a job. The interview was the attack. Five days ago, the FBI and international partners confirmed that variations of this scheme have infected at least 30,000 computers in more than 100 countries — and your employee's own information may not have been the point. Most of the social engineering covered in this series follows a familiar shape: an urgent email, a scary invoice, a suspicious link. Employees have been trained, reasonably well by now, to be wary of things that look like trouble. This one doesn't look like trouble. It looks like an opportunity. The recruiter was the attacker On Sept...