INVESTIGATION – Microsoft’s professional network has faced an upsurge in malicious actors in recent months.
The alert was launched from France. In the middle of the summer, a Chinese company operating in the field of technology approached, on the LinkedIn professional network, several young employees of start-ups by offering them to apply for a generously paid job offer. “I accepted the connection request from an executive of this company, who said he was interested in my profile. We exchanged by message, then I had to answer a few questions about my daily work and my areas of expertise.says Pierre*, IT developer for a Next40 company.
It is while sharing the news over a drink a week later with one of his colleagues and a friend who works at Exotec, an industrial unicorn, that he discovers that they have all been contacted by the same person. . “I am the only one of us to have had an initial telephone interview of about fifteen minutes. For a few months I had wanted to go elsewhere”entrusts…