{"id":265,"date":"2011-05-24T06:03:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T06:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/?p=265"},"modified":"2017-08-24T07:14:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:14:23","slug":"bare-celebrity-on-linkedin-direct-to-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/like-jacking\/bare-celebrity-on-linkedin-direct-to-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Bare celebrity on LinkedIn direct to malware"},"content":{"rendered":"

A blog post by our friends at Trend Micro wedged my eye this morning, and got some of the guys within SophosLabs<\/strong><\/em> looking a small quicker at some of the profiles listed on the business networking site, LinkedIn. It\u2019s astounding how many people signed-up on LinkedIn <\/strong>have words like “nude<\/strong>” and “naked<\/strong>” in their job title. It’s probable that some of these are genuine (for instance, the person who claims to be the Chief Nude Parachutist at a New York-based company), but many of them are not.<\/p>\n

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For example, I think it’s very improbable that Paris Hilton <\/strong>works for a firm called “company B”, and that she would want to post links claiming to be of her notorious sex video. Another celebrity who has fallen foul of a private home movie becoming public is Kim Kardashian<\/strong>. It seems that the hackers<\/strong> who have peppered LinkedIn with false profiles also believe that people will be probing for videos of her, and so they have created a page for her too.<\/p>\n

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Other names (of various levels of fame) with fake profiles on LinkedIn include Jaime Pressly, Christina Aguilera, Keri Russell, Zooey Deschanel, Lizzy Caplan, Brooke Hogan and Tila Tequila<\/strong><\/em>. Some of the links contained in these profiles are currently down, but SophosLabs can confirm that as recently as January 1st 2009 the malicious Troj\/Decdec-A JavaScript code was being found on them, downloading further malware onto visiting computers.<\/p>\n

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It’s a shame that LinkedIn aren’t keeping a closer eye on clearly bogus profiles being shaped on their site. Certainly spammers<\/strong>, malware authors and other cybercriminals may be abusing the system to link to their WebPages in the hope that it will produce a higher ranking in search engines like Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A blog post by our friends at Trend Micro wedged my eye this morning, and got some of the guys within SophosLabs looking a small quicker at some of the profiles listed on the business networking site, LinkedIn. It\u2019s astounding how many people signed-up on LinkedIn have words like “nude” and “naked” in their job … Continue reading “Bare celebrity on LinkedIn direct to malware”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[72,71,73],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-like-jacking","category-hijack","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-linkedin","tag-paris-hilton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}