I received a pretty disturbing LinkedIn message the other day from
someone claiming to have knowledge of compromised systems within my
company's internal network...
I saw your post about security. I am in security as well. Maybe we could meet up as I am in Baltimore. I am doing some consulting for www.seculert.com
Check it out it is pretty incredible stuff. I can show you all of 's compromised machines from the Botnet network and our software by not going to your network. It is insane.
After visiting Seculert using a browser with paranoid security settings (yay NoScript!), I found they actually appear to be a "legitimate" company... Although I use the term lightly based upon the above message. They apparently offer "intelligence-based cyber threat management" through searching the internet. No different from setting up some well
written Google alerts really.
What's really interesting is that this spam message came from a LinkedIn profile which is highly recommended by managers from SourceFire and Tenable Network Security.
I replied to this message from trying to obtain more information to verify the validity of his claims, and received absolutely no response. I performed several searches for similar spam messages, but couldn't find any. So perhaps this is a new advertising technique they are testing? I'm curious to hear their response.
I performed a little research on Seculert, and couldn't find much.
Seculert.com has been around since 01/03. The domain seculert.com is hidden by "DomainsByProxy", and the website provides basic details for contact information, listing the company as originating in Petach-Tikva, Israel.
Seculert's Twitter account has been active since August. They have 282 followers, and follow no-one. Only 36 tweets have been sent.
Seculert's LinkedIn page states they have between 1-10 employees.
Based upon the above info, this is most likely a "real" company... But I really question:
1) Their advertisement "scare tactics" and
2) The value of their services, when you can setup Google Alerts to perform the same functions.
I encourage Seculert to reply here, especially to address my concerns regarding scare tactic spamvertisements over LinkedIn.
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