New Delhi. There are many benefits of social media platforms. This makes many difficult tasks easy to do with a single click, but the eye of the hacker is always on your social media accounts. Not only this, now the eyes of Cyber Criminals have fallen on the professional networking platform LinkedIn. We don’t say that, but it is claimed in a report. According to the information, professional platform LinkedIn was number one in phishing attacks with 45 percent attempted in the second quarter of this year.

This claim was made in the Check Point Research report. In addition, parent company Microsoft came second in the phishing attack. 13 percent of phishing attacks were attempted on this. At the same time, DHL remained at number three. 12 percent fishing attempts were made on this. Popular brands Adidas, Adobe and HSBC also ranked in the top 10 in terms of phishing attack attempts.

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Millions of users can be targeted at low cost
According to Check Point Software’s Data Research Group Manager, phishing emails are becoming an essential tool for hackers. It allows hackers to target millions of users at a low cost. Cyber ​​criminals use the trust built up in the brand to give them false information and in return try to steal personal information from the users.

Microsoft-related scams are growing fast
According to the researcher, scams related to Microsoft are also increasing rapidly. It is also very dangerous for the organization with individual users. Hackers and cyber criminals gain access to all apps such as Teams and Share Point once they access their account credentials. Therefore, users should not fill in their correct information in any link. Your mistake can cause you great harm.

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protect yourself like this
Experts say that this scam first sends malicious email to users in LinkedIn’s communication style. In such situation, do not click on unknown emails even by forgetting them.
By clicking on an unknown email or link given in it, the personal details of the users reach the hackers. So pay attention before you click.
Do not immediately accept the request of an unknown person.