Foreign espionage operations use LinkedIn to recruit American spies [mashable.com]
Spy Used AI To Create Fake LinkedIn Photo To Fool Targets, Report Finds [www.gizmodo.com.au]
Fake LinkedIn Account Revealed To Be An AI Spy [www.bandt.com.au]
Experts: Spies use fake profiles, AI-generated photos on Linkedin [www.pressherald.com]
Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets [www.oodaloop.com]
A spy reportedly used an AI-generated profile picture to connect with sources on LinkedIn [www.theverge.com]
For the US crowd, a little taste of the future:
— Raphael Satter (@razhael) June 13, 2019
An artificially generated face was used to support what looks like a social media cyberespionage operation. ???? https://t.co/1DG8Zf7hc1
For a while now people have been worrying about the threat of “deepfakes,” AI-generated personas that are indistinguishable, or almost indistinguishable, from real live humans. I think I may have caught an example of one in the wild:https://t.co/yvZbK8RoQt pic.twitter.com/4FaNqtivEY
— Raphael Satter (@razhael) June 13, 2019
2020 on social networks is going to be interesting. Bad actors can move faster than many companies and don’t have to follow GDPR. https://t.co/qIY3P4OMmM
— Peter Skomoroch (@peteskomoroch) June 13, 2019
This is absolutely fucked on a whole new level. https://t.co/ShgTKrhTD8
— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) June 13, 2019
Last month I my attention was drawn to something suspicious: A fake LinkedIn profile connecting to Washington think tank types and senior US officials.
— Raphael Satter (@razhael) June 13, 2019
Even weirder: Her face itself appeared to be fake. https://t.co/yvZbK8RoQt pic.twitter.com/CY85RRznk8
This story is crazy.
— Jack Posobiec ???️? (@JackPosobiec) June 13, 2019
We all know foreign spies routinely use fake social media profiles to home in on American targets. Now, China in particular is waging mass scale spying on LinkedIn. They pose as "phantom profiles" as fellow Americans https://t.co/FJ0yWoiGiT
Another incredible win for LinkedIn https://t.co/dKsKGgoPOF pic.twitter.com/1w4ty4OIhc
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) June 13, 2019
The new face of espionage. https://t.co/sgkrpD1NhX
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) June 13, 2019
This comes as zero surprise to me.
— Josh Hendrickson (@CanterRain) June 15, 2019
Just a couple weeks ago I created a fake LinkedIn profile, complete with A.I. generated face, and managed to gain nearly 200 connections and 100 skill endorsements. It was incredibly easy.https://t.co/z3o36WO3kA https://t.co/MmMAhfyPlt
James Bond emerges as a major user of AI. LinkedIn has been compromised. You can't make this stuff up: https://t.co/80zBbw5vUe
— Oren Etzioni (@etzioni) June 13, 2019
This pretty woman on LinkedIn who worked at the Heritage Foundation, the Brookings Institute, and who has connections to the Trump Administration is fake. And many more like these are probably being used by foreign spies to catfish for more connections. https://t.co/aBjbJvJvbg
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) June 14, 2019
and awaaaaaay we goooooo! GAN fakes are starting to happen exactly two years after I wrote this https://t.co/FFHTSOQqUS https://t.co/JHw9M6C3oI
— hal (@halhod) June 13, 2019
Katie Jones doesn't exist: The Associated Press has determined the 30-something redhead plugged in to Washington's political scene was part of a vast army of phantom profiles lurking on the professional networking site LinkedIn. https://t.co/DPCvwwkyjf
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 13, 2019
LinkedIn is full of spies https://t.co/KTARr5sMJh pic.twitter.com/JCpNgbUoiv
— FutureShift (@futureshift) June 13, 2019
LinkedIn is full of spies https://t.co/aTmxhLoANr #tech #news #smallbiz pic.twitter.com/geujUwTd9b
— TECH|GEEK|REBEL (@TechGeekRebel) June 14, 2019
”Instead of dispatching spies to some parking garage in the US to recruit a target, it’s more efficient to sit behind a computer in Shanghai and send out friend requests to 30,000 targets.” #AI #cybersecurity https://t.co/yaKywqnwFy
— Markku Korkiakoski (@MarkkuKorkiakos) June 14, 2019
A #spy reportedly used an #AI-generated profile picture
— Spiros Margaris (@SpirosMargaris) June 14, 2019
to connect with sources on #LinkedIn https://t.co/oHE3a8l6pw #fintech #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning @jjvincent @verge @razhael @ipfconline1 @horstwilmes @Xbond49 @jblefevre60 @Ronald_vanLoon pic.twitter.com/bk5yFQnlZW
A spy reportedly used an AI-generated profile picture to connect with sources on LinkedIn https://t.co/c4lepUxVfv pic.twitter.com/1jh5yMuoeF
— The Verge (@verge) June 14, 2019
A spy reportedly used an AI-generated profile picture to connect with sources on LinkedIn https://t.co/c4lepUxVfv pic.twitter.com/ktlgMe5B4J
— The Verge (@verge) June 13, 2019