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The latest data scrape was discovered this week when threat actors posted the personal data contained in 700 million LinkedIn user profiles in the RaidForums underground market. This latest data scrape follows an April operation which exposed 500 million LinkedIn users.
Analysts from Privacy Sharks stumbled across the data put up for sale on RaidForums by a hacker calling himself "GOD User TomLiner." The advertisement, posted June 22, claims that 700 million records are included in the cache, and included a sample of 1 million records as "Proof." It contained an "Aggregation of data from a number of websites and companies" as well "Publicly viewable member profile data," LinkedIn said at the time.
The U.S. Supreme Court has granted LinkedIn another legal option to try to prevent rival hiQ Labs from scraping public information from its user profiles, something the Microsoft-owned professional networking platform has claimed is a violation of user privacy and a misuse of its data. The decision effectively vacates a 2019 ruling by the San Francisco-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals barring LinkedIn from prohibiting hiQ access to publicly available information of LinkedIn's users, bouncing the case back to the lower court to hear again.
Microsoft is working on addressing an Office 365 issue that has resulted in legitimate emails sent from multiple domains getting tagged as malicious and quarantined. "Users having multiple issues related to email flow, links within email messages and the Microsoft Defender portal," Microsoft says in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Ten thousand Britons have been targeted on LinkedIn by recruiters for the Chinese and Russian intelligence services, according to an awareness campaign launched by domestic spy agency MI5 this morning. Details were previewed in this morning's Times newspaper, which warned specifically of people with "Access to classified or sensitive information" being targeted by Britain's enemies.
Ten thousand Britons have been targeted on LinkedIn by recruiters for the Chinese and Russian intelligence services, according to an awareness campaign launched by domestic spy agency MI5 this morning. Details were previewed in this morning's Times newspaper, which warned specifically of people with "Access to classified or sensitive information" being targeted by Britain's enemies.
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 other personally identifiable information on a popular hacker forum, according to a report in CyberNews on Tuesday.
A massive trove of LinkedIn account data has been found for sale online, containing 500 million user records including email addresses, phone numbers, links to other social media profiles and professional details. CyberNews researchers were able to confirm that the data contained in the sample was legitimate, but added that " it's unclear whether the threat actor is selling up-to-date LinkedIn profiles, or if the data has been taken or aggregated from a previous breach suffered by LinkedIn or other companies.
A new spear-phishing campaign is targeting professionals on LinkedIn with weaponized job offers in an attempt to infect targets with a sophisticated backdoor trojan called "More eggs." To increase the odds of success, the phishing lures take advantage of malicious ZIP archive files that have the same name as that of the victims' job titles taken from their LinkedIn profiles.
A threat group called Golden Chickens is delivering the fileless backdoor more eggs through a spear-phishing campaign targeting professionals on LinkedIn with fake job offers, according to researchers at eSentire. "Upon opening the fake job offer, the victim unwittingly initiates the stealthy installation of the fileless backdoor, more eggs."