The UK’s domestic intelligence service has launched a new ad campaign after warning that state spies have already approached over 10,000 citizens via social media.
MI5 boss claimed that over the past five years, malicious profiles have been set-up and used “on an industrial scale,” according to the BBC. The broadcaster identified the platform as LinkedIn.
Those approached include staff at almost every government department, companies in strategically important sectors and academics. They might be offered business trips which could be used to try and recruit them into spying for hostile nations, the report claimed.
These employees are potentially more exposed to such approaches given they have been working from home and using personal devices more often, the government’s CSO told the BBC.
The new campaign, launched by MI5 offshoot the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), urges individuals to follow the “four Rs”: recognize malicious profiles, realize the threat, report profiles to managers, and remove them.
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