ALERT! – Phishing Email Scam hits LinkedIn – ALERT!

Published On January 17, 2015 | By Tom Huskerson | Alerts

Scammers are phishing for LinkedIn members log in credentials by sending emails that are supposed to be from LinkedIn Support.

Symantec Senior Security Response Manager  Satnam Narang wrote about the phishing campaign observed over the past week.

In the post Narange stated; “The body of the email claims that irregular activities have prompted a ‘compulsory security update’ for the recipient’s LinkedIn account.”

Instead, opening the attachment leads to a website, which looks like a legitimate LinkedIn login page, he said. The scammers have changed the websites source so that the login and password credentials are sent to the scammer.

Victims are duped into believing the email is authentic by using a lowercase ‘i’, as opposed to an uppercase ‘I’ in the bogus LinkedIn address.

Symantec pointed out that the scammers used HTML attachments in order to bypass browser blacklists. These black lists serve to keep users off phishing websites. Narang stated the best defense against this scam is to  implement LinkedIn’s two-step verification for improved login security.

“With two-step verification enabled, even if a user’s credentials are compromised, an attacker would not be able to log-in without having access to the user’s mobile phone,” he said.

If you believe that you have been scammed and you credentials are compromised then please change your password immediately and notify LinkedIn support.

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Tom Huskerson Bio Born in Richmond Virginia Tom Huskerson is a military veteran who settled in California after his discharge. Tom attended Santa Barbara City College where he began his writing career as a campus reporter. He worked as an intern news reporter for the Santa Barbara News-Press writing feature stories before moving on to San Francisco. At San Francisco State University Tom studied broadcast communications and began to focus on the Internet. He completed his graduate thesis on Internet advertising. Tom was the first student to ever focus on the Internet as a graduate student at San Francisco State University. After graduation he went to work for Zona Research in California’s Silicone Valley. As a research associate Tom supported senior analyst writing on the latest developments in the Internet industry. During the dot com boom Tom worked for several web businesses as a market researcher and analyst. As a writer and researcher Tom has authored various technical works including a training program for Charles Schwab security. Other projects included professional presentations on workplace violence and hiring security contractors. Tom has also written both fiction and non-fiction works and blogging for a travel website. He has published two books of short stories and completed two novels. Tom is the owner of Scribe of Life Literature and EbonyCandle.com. Tom is not the chief editor for the OnTechStreet. com. A news and information blog that focuses on tech news for African-Americans. The blog is the result of his desire to inform the African American community of the dangers and benefits of the cyber age. In his blog Tom reports on information security, new and analysis, scams and hoaxes, legal happenings and various topics that arise from the age of information. Tom believes that technology is a necessary tool for black people and they should know what is happening. Tom writes believing that techno speak is for the professional and that valuable information can be communicated using plain language. As a result he has embraced the motto, Less Tech, More Knowledge.

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