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Published Feb 27, 2023 • Last updated Feb 27, 2023 • 3 minute read
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“There’s certainly an increase in the sophistication of the attacks and the
cleverness,” Oscar Rodriguez, vice-president of product management at LinkedIn
told the Financial Times
“We see websites being set up, we see phone numbers with a seemingly
professional operator picking up the phone and answering on the company’s
behalf. We see a move to more sophisticated deception,” he added.
The warning comes as the Microsoft-owned social media company said it has sought
to block tens of millions of fake accounts in recent months, while U.S.
regulators warn of an increase in jobs-related cons.
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Last month, cyber security company Zscaler revealed a scam that targeted
jobseekers and a dozen U.S. companies, where fraudsters approached people
through LinkedIn’s direct messaging feature InMail.
Scammers identified businesses that were already hiring, including enterprise
software company Zuora, software developer Intellectsoft and Zscaler itself.
They then created “lookalike” websites with similar job ads and, via LinkedIn’s
InMail feature, invited jobseekers to enter personal information into the
websites, before conducting remote interviews via Skype.
“To top it off, they also created Skype profiles with the picture of the (real)
recruiter from the companies to conduct interviews as well,” said Deepen Desai,
vice-president of security research at Zscaler. “Everyone who falls for it will
100 per cent clear the interview with flying colours.”
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Jobseekers passed “invaluable” personal details to the scammers, with some
requesting money for IT equipment or third-party training for which applicants
would never be reimbursed, Desai added.
The recent growth in artificial intelligence programmes that generate realistic
text and images also pose a new threat.
“In the past year, (scammers) are now using artificial intelligence to create
profile photos that can fool human eyes very easily,” said Rodriguez, who added
that LinkedIn is using its own AI to detect “deepfake generated profile photos.”
Etay Maor, a professor in cyber security at Boston College and security
strategist at Israeli security company Cato Networks, said that language
programs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT are another potential tool for scammers.
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“ChatGPT-style solutions…make it much harder to detect scams. It accelerates the
process and it lowers the bar for newcomers,” he said.
The attacks come as the amount jobseekers lose in employment-related scams
increases. Figures from the United States Federal Trade Commission show there
were over 92,000 job-related and business scams in 2022, with US$367.4 million
reported lost. This compared to the 105,000 in the whole of 2021, where US$209
million was lost.
Experts believe remote working has accelerated the trend. “In the old days, the
problem for fraudsters and scammers was the face-to-face interview,” said Keith
Rosser, chair of JobsAware, a not-for-profit organization that provides help to
U.K. workers who have suffered from job scams. “Now there’s a fully digital
process. Workers expect an online interview and website (application).”
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Recent layoffs in the tech sector provide another “headline” for fraudsters “to
follow,” said Kati Daffan, an assistant director of marketing practices at the
FTC.
“Scammers are very creative in terms of leveraging timely topics,” said
Rodriguez, when asked about tech layoffs. “We see scammers trying to leverage
whatever is happening at the moment to lend credibility to (their attacks).”
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Of the almost 22 million fake accounts LinkedIn blocked in January to June 2022,
75 per cent were stopped at the account registration stage, the company said.
It has also recently introduced features telling users how long a person has
operated a LinkedIn profile and it is developing cautionary, automatic prompts
in InMail to warn users when they receive suspicious messages about employment
or cryptocurrency investments, for example.
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