Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s | allinfosecnews.com

Sept. 29, 2022, 8:52 p.m. | BrianKrebs

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Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be. But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are confusing search engine results for CISO roles at major companies, and they are being indexed as gospel by various downstream data-scraping sources.

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