LinkedIn has been hit by a rise in sophisticated recruiting scams as fraudsters seek to cash in on the trend of remote working and widespread layoffs in the tech industry. Job seekers from the world’s largest professional network are being cheated out of money after participating in fake recruitment processes set up by scammers posing … More LinkedIn scammers step up sophistication of online attacks
LinkedIn scammers attack when we may be at our most vulnerable – here’s what to look out for and how to avoid falling victim to fraud when using the platform. Job hunting is hard work, a kind of full-time job in itself. It requires focus and patience to go from one job posting to another … More Common LinkedIn scams: Beware of phishing attacks and fake job offers
Information scraped from LinkedIn user profiles includes full names, gender, email addresses and phone numbers. For the second time this year, data scraped from the accounts of hundreds of millions of LinkedIn users has been posted for sale on a hacking forum. This haul seems to be even bigger than the one that involved data … More Data for 700 million LinkedIn users up for grabs on hacker forum
ESET researchers uncover targeted attacks against high-profile aerospace and military companies. At the end of last year, we discovered targeted attacks against aerospace and military companies in Europe and the Middle East, active from September to December 2019. A collaborative investigation with two of the affected European companies allowed us to gain insight into the … More Aerospace and military companies in the crosshairs of cyberspies
Following the revelation that a list containing millions of stolen usernames and passwords had appeared online, we tell you a few different ways to find out if your credentials were stolen in that—or any other—security breach. In mid-January, researcher Troy Hunt revealed that a list was floating around in the storage space of the MEGA … More How to spot if your password was stolen in a security breach
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