Spear Phishing Scam Targets LinkedIn Users

About 10,000 users of LinkedIn.com, the social networking site for professionals, recently were targeted by a tailor-made scam that urged recipients to open a malicious file masquerading as a list of business contacts.

Most e-mail-based malware attacks and phishing campaigns designed to trick people into handing over personal and financial data generally are blasted out indiscriminately. But so-called "spear phishing" attacks - such as the bogus LinkedIn campaign -- address recipients by name in the.


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