Beware of being recruited on Linkedin .......

[saptastic]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56812746

MI5 warns of spies using LinkedIn to trick staff into spilling secrets

At least 10,000 UK nationals have been approached by fake profiles linked to hostile states, on the professional social network LinkedIn, over the past five years, according to MI5.

It warned users who had accepted such connection requests might have then been lured into sharing secrets.

"Malicious profiles" are being used on "an industrial scale", the security agency's chief, Ken McCallum, said.


So anyone been approached by a hostile state?

[_V_]

Yes. I shared the secret of how to run multiple threads in VB6 whilst also using accessing volatile memory safely.

[SueEllen]

I would be so lucky.

I just get run of the mill scammers who also happen to be recruitment consultants....

[ladymuck]

There's been a few people that looked shifty and I struggled to see why we'd connect so I ignored them. Eventually NLUK got the hint and stopped asking.

[OwlHoot]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56812746

MI5 warns of spies using LinkedIn to trick staff into spilling secrets

At least 10,000 UK nationals have been approached by fake profiles linked to hostile states, on the professional social network LinkedIn, over the past five years, according to MI5.

It warned users who had accepted such connection requests might have then been lured into sharing secrets. ..

It isn't just hostile states, but prying pimps who make connection requests in the hope of being able to view one's contact list.

At least I think that's why IT agents do it, but will be pleased to be corrected if necessary.

It's academic to me though, because I never accept connection requests from anyone, nor ever have, as I'm not sure of the implications or advantages or otherwise to me.