A newly documented phishing campaign is targeting professionals with fake LinkedIn business emails and abusing a trusted service operated by Adobe. The attack from the victim’s perspective The attack starts with an email that looks, at first glance, like a routine business inquiry: someone wants to do business with you through LinkedIn and has attached…
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AI, Apps, Global Security News
With AI, typing’s out, talking’s in
Eight months ago, LinkedIn co-founder and former CEO Reid Hoffman confessed: “I am voicepilled.” He argued that talking instead of typing was the next great leap in computing. Being “voicepilled,” he said, was the epiphany that you can be vastly more productive and creative when not bogged down by the Victorian-era contraption known as the…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Risk Management
What Your Board Gets Wrong About AI Security
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Craig Riddell on LinkedIn. It has been republished here with the author’s permission. Boards are giving AI security more airtime than ever. What they’re not giving is the right framing. A year or two ago, AI was mostly a question of experimentation risk. Today, it’s tied directly…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News, privacy
LinkedIn illegally blocking free accounts from seeing ‘who’s viewed your profile’ data, group alleges
A LinkedIn feature that allows paid subscribers to view a list of visitors to their profile should be made available to all EU users free of charge to comply with the region’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a legal complaint launched by the None of Your Business (NOYB) digital rights group has claimed. Filed this…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News, privacy
LinkedIn illegally blocking free accounts from seeing ‘who’s viewed your profile’ data, group alleges
A LinkedIn feature that allows paid subscribers to view a list of visitors to their profile should be made available to all EU users free of charge to comply with the region’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a legal complaint launched by the None of Your Business (NOYB) digital rights group has claimed. Filed this…
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, privacy
LINKEDIN BROWSERGATE
BrowserGate claims LinkedIn secretly fingerprints users via extensions and device data, sending encrypted results to third parties for tracking. BrowserGate is an investigation conducted by Fairlinked (https://browsergate.eu/), an association of commercial LinkedIn users, which documents what it describes as one of the largest data breach and corporate espionage scandals in digital history. The central thesis:…
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You can now test and compare AI models on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is testing a new AI feature, Crosscheck, which allows users to compare several popular AI models directly on the platform. Users enter prompts into Crosscheck and receive two different responses generated by competing AI models from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. After the user selects the best response, the model behind each…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, privacy
Smashing Security podcast #462: LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing
LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you’re job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have ADHD. And none of this is mentioned anywhere in their privacy policy. Meanwhile, California’s crypto millionaires are learning that no amount…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Network Security, privacy, Russia
LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing
LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you’re job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have ADHD. And none of this is mentioned anywhere in their privacy policy. Meanwhile, California’s crypto millionaires are learning that no amount…
AI, Global Security News, privacy
BrowserGate: LinkedIn Tracks 6,000+ Browser Extensions on Users’ PCs
LinkedIn is accused in the BrowserGate report of tracking 6,000+ browser extensions on users’ PCs, raising concerns over privacy and data collection practices.
AI, Global Security News, malware
UNC1069 Targets Node.js Maintainers via Fake LinkedIn, Slack Profiles
North Korean group UNC1069 targets Node.js maintainers using fake LinkedIn and Slack profiles to spread malware and compromise open source packages.
Global Security News
LinkedIn secretely scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data
A new report dubbed “BrowserGate” warns that Microsoft’s LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan visitors’ browsers for installed extensions and collect device data. […]
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LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data
A new report dubbed “BrowserGate” warns that Microsoft’s LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan visitors’ browsers for installed extensions and collect device data. […]
AI, Global Security News
LinkedIn Phishing Scam Uses Fake Notifications to Hijack Accounts
A LinkedIn phishing scam uses fake notifications and lookalike domains to steal credentials, hijack accounts, and access sensitive professional data.
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Phishing Scams Target Job Seekers Using LinkedIn Profiles
Discover how phishers are exploiting LinkedIn to deceive job seekers, using tactics that threaten personal data and trust in recruitment.
AI, Global Security News
LinkedIn moves to offer skill validations in the AI era
Job seekers can list skills in LinkedIn profiles, but verifying whether they actually have them typically falls to recruiters. But with more and more employers now seeking AI fluency in candidates, LinkedIn is taking steps to prove that job candidates really have they skills they claim. The Verified AI Skills program unveiled in January involves…
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Viral AI Caricatures Highlight Shadow AI Dangers
A viral Instagram and LinkedIn trend is turning harmless fun into a potential security headache. Millions of users are prompting ChatGPT to “create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me,” then posting the results publicly — inadvertently signaling how they use AI at work and what access they…