A campaign has been launched by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) called
Think Before You Link, which warns that foreign agents are targeting officials with access to sensitive information. The project shares concerns that once a request has been accepted, the victim s colleagues will be more likely to accept a follow-up request as it looks like they share a mutual acquaintance.
Nearly all government departments and some key industries are thought to have been targeted by fake LinkedIn accounts. A large number of those approached might have engaged with the profiles that contacted them, which may have offered speaking or business and travel opportunities as ways to extract confidential information.
Foreign actors used fake LinkedIn profiles to lure 10,000 UK nationals
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Campaign launched to alert public sector staff that not everyone on the internet is nice
Gareth Corfield Tue 20 Apr 2021 // 15:48 UTC Share
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Updated Ten thousand Britons have been targeted on LinkedIn by recruiters for the Chinese and Russian intelligence services, according to an awareness campaign launched by domestic spy agency MI5 this morning.
Details were previewed in this morning s
Times newspaper, which warned specifically of people with access to classified or sensitive information being targeted by Britain s enemies.
The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), an MI5 offshoot, told the newspaper its figure of 10,000 compromise attempts over five years was a conservative one, with MI5 chief Ken McCallum saying in a prepared statement: Malicious profiles on professional networking sites are being utilised on an industrial scale.