{"id":13414,"date":"2026-06-06T02:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/got-a-linkedin-message-from-a-recruiter-it-might-be-chinese-intelligence-warn-fbi-and-mi5\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:03:44","slug":"got-a-linkedin-message-from-a-recruiter-it-might-be-chinese-intelligence-warn-fbi-and-mi5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/got-a-linkedin-message-from-a-recruiter-it-might-be-chinese-intelligence-warn-fbi-and-mi5\/","title":{"rendered":"Got a LinkedIn message from a recruiter? It might be Chinese intelligence, warn FBI and MI5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Got a LinkedIn message from a recruiter? It might be Chinese intelligence, warn FBI and MI5<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>If you&#8217;ve ever received an out-of-the-blue message via LinkedIn from a recruiter offering some well-paid consultancy work, intelligence agencies have a message for you: be very careful.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/linkedin-recruiter-chinese-intelligence-fbi-mi5\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a LinkedIn message from a recruiter? It might be Chinese intelligence, warn FBI and MI5 If you&#8217;ve ever received an out-of-the-blue message via LinkedIn from a recruiter offering some well-paid consultancy work, intelligence agencies have a message for you: be very careful. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[479,54,155,164,1482],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-13414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-linkedin","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}