LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit in the Northern California U.S. District Court in order to discover the perpetrators of a massive and prolonged bot attack on its network, SiliconBeat reports.
"During periods of time since December 2015, and to this day, unknown persons and/or entities employing various automated software programs (often referred to as ‘bots’) have extracted and copied data from many LinkedIn pages," the lawsuit accusations read.
LinkedIn claims that the attacker has intentionally gone around its defenses in order to scrape user profiles and gather their personal information.
LinkedIn can get in trouble if it doesn't address the attacks
The social network, now owned by Microsoft, is the legal...
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LinkedIn Files Lawsuit to Uncover Massive Data Scraping Botnet
LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit in the Northern California U.S. District Court in order to discover the perpetrators of a massive and prolonged bot attack on its network, SiliconBeat reports. "During periods of time since December 2015, and…
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title: Detect Exploitation - LinkedIn Files Lawsuit to Uncover Massive Data Scraping Botnet
id: f1035f86-a678-47c2-bb02-ea92a419e935
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-26
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_access
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rule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-26"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "LinkedIn Files Lawsuit to Unco" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
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index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("LinkedIn Files Lawsuit to Uncover Massiv")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
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message: "*LinkedIn Files Lawsuit to Uncover Massiv*"Syntax validiert (0 Fehler)
CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "LinkedIn Files Lawsuit to Uncover Massiv"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
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