Hackers target LinkedIn, hijack user accounts: Report

Cyber threat actors, in successful hacking campaigns, are targeting LinkedIn accounts. The attacks are following a consistent method where user accounts are hijacked by threat actors after which victims are pressured to pay a ransom to regain control of their accounts or face permanent deletion. While LinkedIn is yet to release a statement about the campaign, threat actors appear to be making use of brute force attacks to hijack user accounts. In the first scenario users temporarily lose access to their accounts and receive an official email from LinkedIn notifying them of the security measure to secure their accounts against brute force attacks. Threat actors achieve this by changing the email addresses and passwords associated with hacked accounts to ensure users cannot regain control of their accounts.