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Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Last week, a group of hackers targeted Radioactive Waste Management (RWM), a UK government-owned company behind the country’s multibllion-dollar Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) nuclear waste-storage project, using social engineering and LinkedIn. RWM merged last year with two other companies to create Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), which also administers the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Phishers targeting LinkedIn users via hijacked accounts

A new phishing campaign has been spotted hitting LinkedIn users via direct messages and the LinkedIn InMail feature. They are sent from legitimate LinkedIn Premium accounts that have been hijacked by the phishers, thus increasing the likelihood that recipients will trust the message and click on the link. The messages/emails say that the sender has…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

Fake LinkedIn emails phishing job seekers

The scammers are trying to impersonate the popular employment-oriented social networking service, but careful users will immediately spot many things that point to the email being fake: The email sender address that has nothing to do with LinkedIn The lack of certain design elements and the “unsubscribe” footer usually contained in LinkedIn emails The email…