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Application security, Security

LinkedIn adds new features to safeguard user privacy, security

October 27, 2022

Via: Computer Weekly

Professional social network LinkedIn has announced plans to roll out a series of enhancements to its platform to protect its community from inauthentic, or even malicious, profiles and activity. Its objective is to help users make more informed decisions about […]


Cyber-crime, Phishing

DHL takes top spot in brand phishing attempts

October 27, 2022

Via: Help Net Security

Check Point Research has published its Brand Phishing Report for Q3 2022, which highlights the brands which were most frequently imitated by criminals in their attempts to steal individuals’ personal information or payment credentials during July, August and September. Most […]


Access control, Security

Account pre-hijacking attacks possible on many online services

May 24, 2022

Via: Help Net Security

Online accounts getting hijacked and misused is an everyday occurrence, but did you know that account pre-hijacking attacks are also possible? Inspired by previous research on preemptive account hijacking by way of single sign-on (SSO) technology, researchers Avinash Sudhodanan and […]


Privacy protection, Security

It’s legal to scrape public data—US appeals court

April 21, 2022

Via: Malwarebytes

Web scraping—the automated extraction of data from websites—has been around for a long time. Simultaneously cursed and praised, with nobody being able to quite land the decisive blow about whether it should be allowed, one way or another. This may […]


Cyber-crime, Malware

Massive LinkedIn Phishing, Bot Attacks Feed on the Job-Hungry

February 16, 2022

Via: Threat Post

Emotionally vulnerable and willing to offer up any information that lands the gig, job seekers are prime targets for social engineering campaigns. And with the “Great Resignation” in full swing, cybercriminals are having an easy time finding their next victim. […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Freshly scraped LinkedIn data of 88,000 US business owners shared online

July 1, 2021

Via: Security Affairs

Hours ago, a 68MB JSON database containing LinkedIn data recently collected from 88,000 US business owners was shared on a popular hacker forum. According to the poster, the scrape targeted US business owners who have “changed job positions in [the] […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

LinkedIn confirmed that it was not a victim of a data breach

April 12, 2021

Via: Security Affairs

LinkedIn has issued a formal statement to deny that the recent leak that exposed the account details of more than 500 million of its registered users was caused by a security breach. A threat actor has put for sale on […]


Data loss, Threats & Malware

Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online, 2 million records leaked as proof

April 8, 2021

Via: Security Affairs

An archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by the post author. The four leaked files contain […]


Cyber-crime, Phishing

Phishers tricking users via fake LinkedIn Private Shared Document

February 18, 2021

Via: Help Net Security

Phishers are trying to trick users into opening a “LinkedIn Private Shared Document” and entering their login credentials into a fake LinkedIn login page, security researcher JB Bowers warns. The phishing attack The phishing message is delivered via LinkedIn’s internal […]


Cyber-crime, Phishing

Iranian Hackers Target Academic Researcher via WhatsApp, LinkedIn

August 28, 2020

Via: Security Week

Active since at least 2011, the adversary is also tracked as Ajax Security Team, APT35, ITG18, NewsBeef, Newscaster, and Phosphorus, and was previously observed targeting a U.S. presidential candidate, media organizations, government officials, and prominent expatriate Iranians, using an updated […]


Application security, Security

LinkedIn says it blocked or removed more than 21M fake accounts during first half of 2019

August 22, 2019

Via: The Hill

LinkedIn announced this week that it had blocked or removed 21.6 million fake accounts on its platform between January and June of this year. The professional networking platform, which has about 645 million users, wrote in a Tuesday blog post […]


Cyber-crime, Malware

New APT34 campaign uses LinkedIn to deliver fresh malware

July 22, 2019

Via: Security Affairs

Experts at FireEye have uncovered a new espionage campaign carried out by APT34 APT group (OilRig, and HelixKitten. Greenbug) through LinkedIn. Members of the cyberespionage group were posing as a researcher from Cambridge and asking victims to join their social […]


Privacy protection

Artificial intelligence reads privacy policies so you don’t have to

February 22, 2018

Via: Naked Security

We can think of privacy policies as fortresses made out of thick bricks of gobbledygook: impenetrable, sprawling documents that do little beyond legally protect companies. Nobody reads them. Or, to be more precise, 98% of people don’t read them, according […]


Phishing

Beware bogus emails from LinkedIn asking for your CV!

April 19, 2017

Via: Hot for Security

LinkedIn users are being warned to be on their guard following a rise in reports of attacks being distributed via email designed to trick job seekers into sharing their personal details. Scammers have spammed out email messages posing as communications […]


Data loss

LinkedIn’s Lynda.com Notifies Users of Data Breach

December 19, 2016

Via: Security Week

Lynda.com, the online learning platform acquired last year by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion, started notifying customers over the weekend that a database containing user information had been accessed by an unauthorized third party. The company told customers it recently became […]


Malware

Locky hidden in image file hitting Facebook, LinkedIn users

November 29, 2016

Via: Help Net Security

Malware masquerading as an image file is still spreading on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networks. Check Point researchers have apparently discovered how cyber crooks are embedding malware in graphic and image files, and how they are executing the malicious […]


Hacker

Man arrested in Czech Republic suspected of hacking LinkedIn

October 21, 2016

Via: The Hill

LinkedIn on Wednesday said that a Russian man arrested a day earlier in the Czech Republic was suspected of breaching the social media company’s data. “Following the 2012 breach of LinkedIn member information, we have remained actively involved with the […]


Data loss

Reddit resets passwords after LinkedIn data dump

May 30, 2016

Via: SC Magazine

Reddit announced it would require users to reset their passwords following the release of a dataset containing 100 million LinkedIn emails and password combinations from a 2012 breach. While Reddit did not refer directly mention the release of LinkedIn data, […]


Data loss, Hacker

Change your LinkedIn password NOW

May 19, 2016

Via: Kaspersky Blog

If you cast your minds back to the summer of 2012 then you’ll vaguely remember something about LinkedIn being hacked. Data was stolen and there were plenty of red faces in the social networks office, I’m sure. Despite the huge […]


Mobile

LinkedIn algorithms will know how many spammy email notifications you want

November 16, 2015

Via: Naked Security

If you’ve been getting more email notifications from LinkedIn than you’d like, there’s some good news from the social network: you’re going to see a lot less of them. LinkedIn announced in a blog post this week that it’s launching […]