LinkedIn scraping for Recruiter/SaaS sales spam is annoying. But we've seen a similar but more critical issue with phishing attacks based on LinkedIn scraping.

LinkedIn scraping for Recruiter/SaaS sales spam is annoying. But we've seen a similar but more critical issue with phishing attacks based on LinkedIn scraping. When a new employee joins the company, they will start getting texts to their personal phone number "from the CEO" asking them to handle an emergency by accessing a link or sending a file or whatever. It seems to happen right after they update LinkedIn with their new job. We also get email-based versions, but those are usually easy to block. It's frequent enough now that we warm each person about it specifically as part of our initial welcome email and tell them to expect it.