Security researchers have warned of a significant global account takeover campaign targeting LinkedIn users over recent weeks.
Cyberint claimed this week that desperate users locked out of their accounts are venting their ire at the platform’s support on social media. There’s been a spike in searches for LinkedIn support and advice on account compromise across social media as a result, the threat intelligence vendor claimed.
“Our analysis using Google Trends reveals a significant surge in the past 90 days in the volume of Google searches related to the hacked account campaign,” explained researcher Coral Tayar.
“Search queries such as ‘LinkedIn account hacked’ or ‘LinkedIn account recovery’ have experienced a substantial upward trend.”
She claimed the term “breakout” had seen a spike in searches of over 5000%.
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