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Phishing is one of the longest-standing cybersecurity threats, and the first type of email fraud is believed to have emerged in 1995. It was first known as the ILOVEYOU virus (also known as Love Sickness) in 2000, affecting millions of people. Windows PC with corrupted email attachments. The threat may change by 2024, but connections may still be considered the biggest security risk.

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be. But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are confusing search engine results for CISO roles at major companies, and they are being indexed as gospel by various downstream data-scraping sources.