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5 reasons why attackers are phishing over LinkedIn

ID: bbd88126-9abd-5e21-969e-edfe0ffaaef4

STIX ID: report--bbd88126-9abd-5e21-969e-edfe0ffaaef4

Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2025-11-10

Date Updated: 2026-07-18

Author: Sponsored by Push Security

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This vendor blog post warns that LinkedIn direct messages and other non-email channels are increasingly used for scalable, hard-to-detect spear-phishing against enterprise users and executives; attackers leverage account takeovers, AI-generated outreach, and rapid domain rotation to bypass traditional email security, potentially enabling credential theft, SSO compromise, and wide-ranging cloud breaches, and the article advocates browser-based detection and response as mitigation.

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