Topic: LinkedIn spam, exploits and Zeus: a deadly combination ?

[bartblaze]

Is this the perfect recipe for a cybercriminal ?:

1. Hacking LinkedIn's password (and probably user-) database.
2. Sending an email to all obtained email addresses, which is urging you to check your LinkedIn inbox as soon as possible.
3. A user unawarely clicking on the link.
4. An exploit gets loaded. Malware gets dropped. Malware gets executed.
5. User's computer is now a zombie (part of a botnet).

I would definitely say YES.

...Read more: http://bartblaze.blogspot.be/2012/06/linkedin-spam-exploits-and-zeus-deadly.html

[Pez]

You can read more about LinkedIn in this thred in this forum.
http://scforum.info/index.php/topic,7523.0.html

[bartblaze]

Useful post indeed. Thanks Pez !