Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China have been using fake LinkedIn profiles to steal information—and even the platform's new tools can't stop the scourge.
, covering January to June 2022, LinkedIn said that 95.3 percent of the fake accounts it discovered were blocked by “automated defenses,” including 16.4 million that were blocked at the time of registration. LinkedIn’s Rodriguez says the company has identified a number of signs it looks for when hunting fake accounts.
Similarly, when an account is being created, a mismatch between its IP address and listed location wouldn’t automatically be a trigger—someone could be traveling or using a VPN—but it might be a “yellow flag,” Rodriguez says. If the account shares other characteristics with previously removed accounts from a particular region or set of devices, he adds, that might be a clearer signal that the account is fraudulent.
“For the very small percent of accounts that managed to interact with members, we retrace our steps to understand the common characteristics across the different accounts,” Rodriguez says. The information is then used to “cluster” groups of accounts that may be fraudulent. Sabeti says LinkedIn is “very proactive” when human rights or security organizations report suspicious accounts. “It’s good in comparison with the other tech companies,” he says.
In some cases, LinkedIn’s new defenses appear to be working. In December, WIRED created two fake profiles using AI text generators. “Robert Tolbert,” a mechanical engineering professor at Oxford University, had an AI-generated profile photo and a resume, complete with fake journal articles. The day after the account was created, LinkedIn asked for ID verification.
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