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Categories: News Tags: fake accounts Tags: social media platform Tags: LinkedIn Tags: AI Tags: deep learning Tags: reporting After a deluge of fake or bot accounts these past few months, LinkedIn says it is starting to roll out some new security features. |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:07:34 +0000
On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in the creation of fake employee accounts that pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate users.
Read MoreCategories: News Tags: malware Tags: ZINC Tags: microsoft Tags: infection Tags: C&C Tags: open source Tags: job offer Tags: fake Tags: LinkedIn A North Korean ZINC group is accused of creating compromised versions of KiTTY, PuTTY, TightVNC, and other popular open-source software apps |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:52:43 +0000
Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be. But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are confusing search engine results for CISO roles at major companies, and they are being indexed as gospel by various downstream data-scraping sources.
Read MoreCategories: News Tags: Deepfake Tags: fake Tags: binance Tags: cryptocurrency Tags: Linkedin Tags: scam Tags: Zoom Tags: meeting Tags: call Tags: fake We take a look at reports of a Deepfake hologram getting up to no good in bogus cryptocurrency Zoom calls. |
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Read MoreCategories: News Categories: Social engineering Tags: Twilio Tags: text messages Tags: sso Tags: okta Tags: linkedin Twilio says it has fallen victim to a breach after an attacker sent text messages to a large number of employees. |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:30:06 +0000
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:45:01 +0000
The FBI has issued a warning about cryptocurrency scams on LinkedIn. We see what the scammers are up to and how you can avoid them.
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