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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:06:05 +0000
In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But more than a month later, the accused continues to openly operate accounts at a slew of American tech companies, including Facebook, Github, LinkedIn, PayPal and Twitter/X.
Read MoreThe #opentowork hashtag may attract the wrong crowd as criminals target LinkedIn users to steal personal information, or scam them.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:43:34 +0000
Many organizations — including quite a few Fortune 500 firms — have exposed web links that allow anyone to initiate a Zoom video conference meeting as a valid employee. These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks.
Read MoreCategories: News Tags: LinkedIn Tags: sessions Tags: contacts It started with a password reset email in the middle of the night. |
The post A firsthand perspective on the recent LinkedIn account takeover campaign appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCategories: News Tags: LinkedIn Tags: rambler.ru Tags: MFA Tags: brute-force Tags: credential stuffing LinkedIn support channels are being swamped by users that have been locked out of their accounts. |
The post Attackers demand ransoms for stolen LinkedIn accounts appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2023 13:49:15 +0000
One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message, or leveraging link redirects on LinkedIn, or abusing an encoding method that makes it easy to disguise booby-trapped Microsoft Windows files as relatively harmless documents.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:30:08 +0000
Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States.
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Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Tue, 02 May 2023 10:10:56 +0000
How LinkedIn combats fake profiles, why you should manually purge fake employees from your company’s LinkedIn page, and how to do it.
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