Applying for AppSec Engineer @ Riot

It's no surprise that attackers will use recruiters as targets for a compromise and like many companies, we've seen the usual applications with XSS and macros. Today I received something slightly different which I figured was worth sharing -

As you'd expect, the candidate details are fabricated so we can't progress :(

P.S. We are actually hiring in Dublin, Istanbul, St Louis and LA for security engineers:)

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