Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s
Summary: A large number of fake LinkedIn profiles have been created for CISO roles at major corporations, including Chevron and ExxonMobil, and a Google search for Chevron's CISO returned the fake profile as the first result. The fabricated identities are being indexed as fact by downstream data-scraping sources, and one fake ExxonMobil CISO profile was accepted into Cybercrime Magazine's CISO 500 listing.
Why it matters: Former Honeywell CISO Rich Mason noted that many of the fake profiles had hundreds of followers, including dozens of real CISOs, and asked: if CISOs are falling for this, what hopes do the masses have?
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