From LinkedIn to Tailored Attack in 30 Minutes: How AI Accelerates Target Profiling for Cybercrime

This research demonstrates a proof-of-concept ‘LinkedIn AI analysis tool’ that scrapes public LinkedIn profiles and posts (using Apify/HarvestAPI), applies multimodal AI analysis to images and post context, builds hierarchical organizational and individual profiles, and automatically generates tailored phishing emails and convincing fake marketing websites — enabling personalized spear-phishing at scale in under 30 minutes; the authors warn defenders that employees' public digital footprints are now a practical and machine-interpretable attack surface.