Results for 'LinkedIn'
LinkedIn bots and spear phishers target job seekers
October 23, 2024 - The #opentowork hashtag may attract the wrong crowd as criminals target LinkedIn users to steal personal information, or scam them.
A firsthand perspective on the recent LinkedIn account takeover campaign
September 1, 2023 - Not long ago I wrote about a recent campaign to hold LinkedIn users’ accounts to ransom. Shortly after I published the...
Attackers demand ransoms for stolen LinkedIn accounts
August 18, 2023 - An ongoing campaign targeting LinkedIn accounts has led to victims losing control of their accounts, or being locked out following repeated...
Fake Amazon Prime email abuses LinkedIn’s URL shortener
February 24, 2023 - Over the last few days, scammers have been sending out phishing mails that disguise bogus URLs with something called Slinks—shortened Linkedin...
LinkedIn introduces new security features to combat fake accounts
November 1, 2022 - LinkedIn knows it has a problem with bots and fake accounts, and has acknowledged this on more than one occasion. For...
LinkedIn scams are a “significant threat”, warns FBI
June 20, 2022 - Digital currency fraud is a growing issue on social media, and LinkedIn is no different. In fact, according to according to...
Watch out for LinkedIn fakes who want to get connected
March 30, 2022 - Despite continued warnings of deepfake chaos during major events, things haven’t worked out the way some thought. Those video deepfakes are...
Watch out for this bump in LinkedIn phishing
February 2, 2022 - LinkedIn is sometimes forgotten about in more general coverage of phishing attacks. Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram...
Second colossal LinkedIn “breach” in 3 months, almost all users affected
June 30, 2021 - LinkedIn has reportedly been breached—again—following reports of a massive sale of information scraped from 500M LinkedIn user profiles in the underground...
Deepfakes and LinkedIn: malign interference campaigns
November 20, 2019 - Deepfakes haven’t quite lost the power to surprise, but given their wholesale media saturation in the last year or so, there’s...
