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Bogus LinkedIn profiles punt malware to fools

Bogus profiles on social networking website LinkedIn are punting malware to the credulous and starstruck. Fraudulent accounts in the name of celebrities such as Beyoncé Knowles, Victoria Beckham, Salma Hayek and others are littered with links that take surfers to site harbouring malware, Trend Micro reports. The attack - which …

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Chris Gray
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LinkedIn fairly safe

You can accomplish pretty much everything on LinkedIn with JavaScript turned off, so it continues to be a fairly safe site.

Francis Fish
Unhappy

Berk is rhyming slang for Berkshire Hunt

... and was judged unparliamentry language some years ago. Please, don't use it. Fuck is fine for me though, carry on ... nothing to see here.

Anonymous Coward
Paris Hilton

Berk etc.

Akshully, Berkshire Hunt is rhyming slang for C***. Berk is the approved short form version.

Something smells of fish, though......

David Wiernicki

Hard to imagine?

"It's hard to imagine many (if any) would have been taken in by such a crude and transparently bogus ruse..."

...but then again, I got a nigerian spam yesterday - totally normal, except FROM: was "NIGERIAN SCAMMERS". Seriously.

Ian Hendry

Not the best place to spread malware...

Surely most people on LinkedIn, which boasts it has the highler echelons of society, would smell a rat when a "celebrity" is using a professional networking site to tout nude pictures?

Apat from which, LinkedIn proactively discourages you from connecting to people you don't already know, so it's quite unlikely you'll be surfing for celebs in the first place.

Not the best place to be spreading malware.

Ian Hendry

CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ

http://www.wecando.biz

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