Categories: News Tags: LinkedIn Tags: sessions Tags: contacts It started with a password reset email in the middle of the night. |
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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. |
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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.
Read moreCategories: News Categories: Scams Tags: LinkedIn Tags: Slinks Tags: phish Tags: phishing Tags: email Tags: payment details Tags: amazon Tags: gmail Tags: outlook Tags: hotmail Tags: scam Tags: scammers The email claims if you not update your card information in the next 24 hours, your membership benefits will be cancelled. |
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Read moreCategories: 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.
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