[HN Gopher] Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s
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Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 14 points
Date : 2022-09-29 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (krebsonsecurity.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (krebsonsecurity.com)
| notacoward wrote:
| "Landing jobs at cryptocurrency firms" doesn't make a whole lot
| more sense than my first guess (another stupid TikTok trend). Are
| crypto firms really looking for Fortune 500 types at all? Seems
| more likely to be an attempt to intercept some sort of inside
| information via the impersonators. Like phishing, to which it's
| related, this would be low yield but even lower effort (and zero
| cost).
| oogetyboogety wrote:
| At first I thought someone just put test synthetic data into
| prod..
| GartzenDeHaes wrote:
| Kind of reminds me of the Yes Men and their WTO web site. When
| some comedian/activists picked up an old WTO domain name and
| setup a spoof site for fun, they started getting real inquiries
| to the WTO such conference invitations. Their presentation on the
| economic efficiency of remote workers was ... interesting.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
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