I Talked to Cybersecurity Experts After These LinkedIn Scams Almost Fooled Me https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-spot-common-linkedin-job-scams/ #cybersecurity #scams #LinkedIn #SocialMedia #FakeJobs #FakeProfiles #phishing
#FakeProfiles
«“One SIM card can be used for hundreds of different platforms,” said Dek. “Vendors recoup SIM costs by selling high-demand verifications for apps like Facebook and Telegram, then profit from the long tail of other platforms.”
Additional analyses show global stocks of fake accounts are highest for platforms such as X, Uber, Discord, Amazon, Tinder and gaming platform Steam»
#FakeProfiles
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index
Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals
The account MAGANationX, with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We The People”, is actually operated from eastern Europe, according to the Daily Beast
#X #Twitter #MAGA #FakeProfiles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-influencers-outside-us-x-twitter-tool
Fake profiles are a growing threat to professional networking.
Over 70 million fake accounts were detected and removed in just six months in 2024, but millions more remain active.
80% of professionals say they’ve encountered suspicious or fake profiles.
At WiseIN, we’re on a mission to create a verified professional space, where real people connect safely,
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#WiseIN #FakeProfiles #ProfessionalNetworking #VerifiedConnections #SafeNetworking
Back in 2006, a dead 13-year-old and an unpunished cyber-bully made the headlines. The Megan Meier case was the first of its kind to bring to the public the risks of cyberstalking and fake profiles online, especially for youth.
Megan's story prompted legislators to fill the gaps so that others wouldn't fall through the cracks, but is it enough?
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-the-megan-meier-case/
#meganMeier #cyberbullying #cyberstalking #fakeProfiles #catfishing
🥸 A #fake #nerdgirl account using stolen photos has targeted #Fediverse users, highlighting vulnerabilities to #spam and #abuse in #decentralisednetworks.
🚨 This incident underscores the need for #communitydefences and #ethicalinnovations to combat #AIdriven #fakeprofiles and maintain trust in online interactions.
👉 https://www.webpronews.com/fake-nerd-girl-account-revives-spam-tactics-on-fediverse-with-ai-risks/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
Anyone else notice this? Unbelievable, isn't it? Literally!
#fakeprofiles #justforfun #fakes
Sanna Marin ilmestyi tiktokkiini kommentoimaan puutarhavideotani näin. 😟
Ei kyllä nyt kovin vakuuttavaa ole. Jos tämä ei ole feikkitili, niin on kyllä Sannan taustaryhmällä parantamisen varaa. 🤦♂️
Tilin kaikki videot on lisätty samana päivänä kuukausi sitten ja ovat tosi vanhoja. Kyllä haiskahtaa… huijaukselta.
BOLO for #OfficerProxy
#OfficerProxy has been known to hide #IdentityTheftRings & #GangStalkers using #OfficerProxies access to this #CALEA #StateSponsoredMalware access to #GammaGroup's #FinFisher #FinSpy #Finsky #malware by #FacebookGroups organizing their targeted #IdentityTheft using #FakeProfiles of their targets.
Be aware that some #OfficerProxies are getting thousands of dollars of ' kickbacks for access ' for their criminal #Facebook leverage #OrganizedCrimeRings in multiple states and cities.
#InternalAffairs #investigations
#infosec #Fortune1000 #CorporateEspionage #CISO #TCPDUMP #MetaUsers 👨⚖️👩⚖️⚖️👮
An apparently fake profile, @gerogetakei001 is now following me - how to best handle it on Mastodon? #MastodonNewbie #ItSupport #FakeProfiles #Troll
🎙️ ✨ A new episode has been published on @ITSPmagazine
Show: Redefining CyberSecurity With @seanmartin
Episode: Spotting and Unmasking Fake LinkedIn Profiles to Avoid the Hidden Risks and Thwart LinkedIn Scams
Guest: Kris Rides
Podcast format: Video & Audio
#FakeProfiles #LinkedInScams #phishing #cybersecurity #podcast
Enjoy!
📺 Watch the episode video on YouTube and subscribe to ITSPmagazine Channel here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBIm-_0PnJA
📻 If you prefer to listen to the audio podcast, enjoy it here 👉 https://itsprad.io/redefiningcybersecurity-457 and subscribe!
🎙️To learn more about Sean and his podcasts, visit his page here👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/sean-martin
When misdirection works... too well - https://m4iler.cloud/2023/10/21/when-misdirection-works/ #privacy #osint #fakeprofiles
"‘Aims’: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles - [Guardian] Exclusive: Team Jorge disinformation unit controls vast army of avatars with fake profiles on Twitter, #Facebook, #Gmail, #Instagram, #Amazon and #Airbnb
"At first glance, the Twitter user “Canaelan” looks ordinary enough. He has tweeted on everything from basketball to Taylor Swift, Tottenham Hotspur football club to the price of a KitKat. The profile shows a friendly-looking blond man with a stubbly beard and glasses who, it indicates, lives in Sheffield. The background: a winking owl.
Canaelan is, in fact, a non-human bot linked to a vast army of fake social media profiles controlled by a software designed to spread “propaganda”.
Advanced Impact Media Solutions, or Aims, which controls more than 30,000 fake social media profiles, can be used to spread disinformation at scale and at speed. It is sold by “Team Jorge”, a unit of disinformation operatives based in Israel.
Tal Hanan, who runs the covert group using the pseudonym “Jorge”, told undercover reporters that they sold access to their software to unnamed intelligence agencies, political parties and corporate clients. One appears to have been sold to a client who wanted to discredit the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a statutory watchdog.
On 18 October 2020, the ICO ruled that the government should reveal which companies were awarded multimillion-pound contracts to supply PPE after being entered into a “VIP” lane for politically connected companies. “This is politically motivated, it’s clear!” Canaelan lamented on Twitter two days later."
#Disinformation #DisinformationIndustry #FakeNews #FakeProfiles #UK #UKPolitics #AIMS #TeamJorge #TalHanan
‘#Aims’: the #software for hire that can control 30,000 #fake online profiles | #Cybercrime | #TheGuardian
"Exclusive: #TeamJorge #disinformation unit controls vast army of #avatars with #FakeProfiles on #Twitter, #Facebook, #Gmail, #Instagram, #Amazon and #Airbnb"
Story time!
So there's loads of #fake profiles on #Tinder, right? They all have photos of generically attractive Asian women, and there's only a couple of photos of them, all in the same location & outfit.
Their name is always some random adjective.
Anyway, I reckon the #algorithm is onto a winner here
This article touches on several key reproducible techniques that the #CI #GangStalkers on #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp who have also migrated over to #Telegram & #Signal now use methodology wise to #TargetedIndividuals most notably by putting #SSM™ #StateSponsoredMalware that is off the shelf from the #UK, aka #GammaGroup's #FinFisher #FinSpy #Finsky which is used to infect and cause #Trillions of dollars of #FinancialCrime hiding behind their #ProxyServers to #HideTheirLocation .
This is a common tactic for spreading #disinformation and #CharacterAssasination via #FakeProfiles posing as the target, the #TargetedIndividual perpitrated by #CI's #WhiteListedCriminals & #Pedophiles in #CounterIntelligence.
Your favourite social media influencer might be fictional https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e106bc91018f58831722d582059dd72b150
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