In a surprising twist on traditional recruitment methods, the Iranian-aligned cyber group UNC2428 has taken job hunting to an entirely new level of malevolence. Their latest innovation, the MURKYTOUR malware, is delivered via emails dressed as job offers so enticing the recipient might just overlook the inevitable system compromise.

This approach to job placement, which could best be described as a “career-endangering opportunity,” has raised eyebrows and firewalls across Israel. Experts are marveling at the dual-use nature of these emails, which manage to deliver qualified hope and viral doom in one tidy package.

Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm owned by Google and now presumably needing a vacation, has been hard at work unveiling this digital charade. Their analysts, visibly contemplating career changes themselves, described the operation as a ‘complex intrusion set,’ a fancy way of saying these hackers applied more effort here than the average person puts into their actual resumes.

One must admire the audacity: in an era where finding a job is like finding Atlantis, these hackers have gone ahead and created an entire recruitment process purely to crash candidates’ systems. We can only assume that their endgame is a LinkedIn endorsement from the Dark Web.