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Shady LinkedIn group targeting infosec professionals

A blog post from Finland-based cybersecurity firm F-Secure shows how some unidentified group is sending out LinkedIn invitations to infosec professionals.

Watch out if you’re an information security professional with an active LinkedIn page: You may be targeted by a shady group looking to map security researchers’ social graph.

A blog post from Finland-based cybersecurity firm F-Secure shows how some unidentified group is sending out LinkedIn invitations to infosec professionals. After a number of researchers at F-Secure received requests, they decided to investigate.

Yonathan Klijnsma, a researcher at Netherlands-based Fox-IT, also received messages from the group and chronicled them in a number of tweets.

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F-Secure found that the images used by the group on LinkedIn were taken from other LinkedIn profiles or Instagram accounts. The “company” also uses a logo that was stolen from a different site.

The researchers haven’t found any sort of malicious activity tied to the group, but the information they did uncover was enough to raise a few red flags.

Read F-Secure’s blog for more.

Greg Otto

Written by Greg Otto

Greg Otto is Editor-in-Chief of CyberScoop, overseeing all editorial content for the website. Greg has led cybersecurity coverage that has won various awards, including accolades from the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Prior to joining Scoop News Group, Greg worked for the Washington Business Journal, U.S. News & World Report and WTOP Radio. He has a degree in broadcast journalism from Temple University.

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