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LinkedIn has even surpassed DHL as the most affected.
Hackers contact LinkedIn users via an email that looks identical to the company’s.
LinkedIn is one of the social networks that has been trending in recent days. The Brand Phishing Report for the first quarter of 2022, carried out by the cybersecurity company, Check Point Research (CPR) revealed that for the first time the social network is the most impersonated brand by cybercriminals, followed by the DHL and Google brands.
According to data from Statista, in 2021, the global number of LinkedIn users in the world amounted to about 774.61 million and it is expected to continue to increase over the next few years, until it exceeds the 1,000 million barrier in 2025.
This social network offers people a great network of professionals, since there are a thousand opportunities in it, such as being able to meet several of the CEOs of important companies first-hand, discover what they are looking for, and power, such as the platform indicates it, socialize with personalities whose work profile is parallel to yours.
The Brand Phishing Report detailed that LinkedIn registered 8 percent of social engineering attacks, and that in this new report it is the protagonist with 52 percent of phishing attempts, which is a type of attack in which cybercriminals impersonate the identity of the page to steal personal information or payment credentials.
According to the specialists in the document, LinkedIn has even overtaken DHL as the most affected, which now ranks second and accounts for 14 percent of all phishing attempts in the first months of the year.
Also, the report of the cybersecurity company, indicates that cyber hackers contact LinkedIn users through an email that looks identical to the company’s to entice them to click on a malicious link.
After that, once the victim enters the site, who appears to be the officerit asks you to log in, but it keeps the password and username.
By the time they get the passwords, cybercriminals can take control of the account to send spam, commit fraud, or perform other social engineering tactics.
Transport companies and technology giants are also affected
The Brand Phishing Report for the first quarter of 2022 it not only showed logs from LinkedIn, as it points out that social networks are the main target of cybercriminals, as well as companies transportation companies and technology giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple.
In the top ten are companies like WhatsApp where nearly 1 in 20 phishing-related attacks worldwide. While Facebook, for its part, this year left the list of the most attacked social networks.
For its part, DHL occupies the second position with 14 percent of phishing attempts, in the fifth position is FedEx, and now represents 6 percent of all cases, Maersk and AliExpress debut in the list of the ten first.
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