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Data from 500M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale Online

09

Apr

2021

Personal data from more than 500 million LinkedIn users has been posted for sale online in yet another incident of threat actors scraping data from public profiles and slinging it online for potential cybercriminal misuse. Hackers posted an archive containing data they said includes LinkedIn IDs, full names, professional titles, email addresses, phone numbers and […]

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North Korean-Backed Group Sets Up Fake Security Company, Google Says

05

Apr

2021

Threat actors working on behalf of North Korea posed as security researchers on social media in a campaign to compromise employees of security companies, according to a Google report. The threat actors’ ability and willingness to go after security researchers only shows how serious the campaign really was. It’s not a common occurrence in the […]

Category Hacker Threats & Malware Written by Hotforsecurity 0 Comments

Beware bogus emails from LinkedIn asking for your CV!

19

Apr

2017

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 from LinkedIn, claiming that a company is “urgently seeking” workers matching your qualifications in “your region”.

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