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LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates

Summary: LinkedIn is rolling out an "About This Profile" section showing the year an account was created, when the profile was last updated, and whether the account is verified, alongside warnings on messages that push conversations to other platforms. KrebsOnSecurity reported that on October 10, 2022, 576,562 LinkedIn accounts listed Apple Inc. as their current employer, and half of those profiles no longer existed the next day, while profiles claiming Amazon roles fell from roughly 1.25 million to 838,601 in one day, a 33 percent drop.

Bottom line: LinkedIn removed hundreds of thousands of inauthentic accounts in a single day, and Mandiant told Bloomberg that hackers working for the North Korean government have been copying resumes and profiles from LinkedIn and Indeed to land jobs at cryptocurrency firms. A creation date and an email-domain check are thin signals when the fake profiles Krebs reviewed were mostly AI-generated photos of young women, and it remains unclear who is behind the executive impersonation.

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