{"id":205057,"date":"2022-10-07T11:40:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=205057"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:23:58","slug":"fake-linkedin-profiles-ai-headshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/fake-linkedin-profiles-ai-headshots\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake LinkedIn profiles are using AI-generated headshots to impersonate companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The popular business-related social platform LinkedIn is facing a bit of an identity crisis<\/strong>. Many legitimate businesses use the platform for sourcing and hiring experts; however, recent waves of fake impersonators<\/strong> are making it extremely difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n

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There has been a significant rise in fake profiles<\/strong> using fabricated identities that have been lifted from legitimate accounts and feature AI-generated profile pictures. These accounts look very real, causing a major headache for corporate HR departments or those that manage invite-only LinkedIn groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity investigated<\/a> and revealed a flood of inauthentic accounts<\/strong>, all posing as Chief Information Security Officers for big fortune 500 companies, including Biogen, Chevron, Hewlett Packard, and others. Since this announcement, many other users have reported similar cases<\/strong>, and it seems these fake profiles are showing up en masse in executive roles across many different industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hamish Talor runs the Sustainability Professionals group on LinkedIn and has added his voice<\/strong> to the concerns about these fake profiles. Since the start of the year, Taylor has announced that they\u2019ve had to block more than 12 700 accounts<\/strong> suspected of being fake. He goes on to say that they receive approximately 500 fake requests to join<\/strong> each week, and it\u2019s gotten much worse since January this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another prominent LinkedIn user, Mark Miller, who owns and runs the DevOps Group, has also noticed a similar increase. Miller reported that he deals with fake profiles daily<\/strong>, sometimes hundreds of them. Miller has reported these accounts to LinkedIn reps for months to no avail. Finally, after eventually threatening to close his group<\/strong> because of the sheer number of fake profiles, it appeared that some action was taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of these and many other similar issues, platform users are begging for better tools and more protection against these fake profiles. After the recent LinkedIn phishing attacks<\/a> experienced, we\u2019re eager to see what they do to help businesses and groups deal with these waves of fake profiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The popular business-related social platform LinkedIn is facing a bit of an identity crisis. Many legitimate businesses use the platform for sourcing and hiring experts; however, recent waves of fake impersonators are making it extremely difficult. There has been a significant rise in fake profiles using fabricated identities that have been lifted from legitimate accounts … Continue reading “Fake LinkedIn profiles are using AI-generated headshots to impersonate companies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9221,"featured_media":205061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2550],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-205057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionlinkedin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323067,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205057\/revisions\/323067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205057"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=205057"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=205057"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=205057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}