How Your LinkedIn Exposes You To Facial Recognition Hacks

From Facebook overshares to accidental password posts on Twitter, there are many ways in which Web personas leak things of use to malicious hackers. But there’s one aspect of your online identity you might not expect to benefit ne’er-do-wells: your face.
This was made evident when reserchers from an IBM cybersecurity division took my LinkedIn profile image for their own “nefarious” purposes. During a video call, they held up a laptop that, once the camera had taken a snap of my face and recognized it by comparing my live visage to the LinkedIn image, was infected with ransomware. (In this case it was a mock version of the infamous WannaCry malware.) This was facial recognition meets cybercrime in action.
 
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