Microsoft says it has uncovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments. The campaign employs carefully crafted lures to blend into routine workflows, such as cloning repositories, opening projects, and running builds, thereby allowing the malicious code to execute undetected. Telemetry collected during an incident investigation by Microsoft suggested the campaign’s alignment with a broader cluster of threats using job-themed tricks. “During initial incident analysis, Defender telemetry surfaced a limited set of malicious repositories directly involved in observed compromises,” the com...