HHP – Hackers Hack People

LinkedIn is a prime resource for hackers, because hackers hack people, and LinkedIn is where people showcase their careers.

When Someone Wants To Connect On LinkedIn

Darknet predators and bad actors create spoof identities on LinkedIn, and hop from connection to connection, borrowing the reflected credibility of people they connect with, to target victims or build pools of people that they can phish from, run BEC frauds, or whatever takes their fancy.

LinkedIn says “only connect with people you know and trust”, because you are conferring your credibility on people you connect with – but they don’t mean it. LinkedIn monetizes its audience through advertising, monthly fees and by selling the data through Sales Navigator.

Effectively, LinkedIn is a big plantation, and everyone in it is sold or marketed or monetized via Sales Navigator. Hence all the tsunami of emails you get offering to sell you services, increasingly from offshore people who spoof phone numbers to appear local.

People have become conditioned to equate connections with success, and LinkedIn sells this garbage line with messages like “Your skills are being recognized – x people viewed your profile this week.” In reality, you are being measured up for harvest by Sales Navigator users and people wanting to sell to you, as well as hackers and bad actors, plus some old or current colleagues.