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A new blog post coins 'LinkedIn Larpmaxxing' to describe users who treat their LinkedIn profiles as elaborate performances, inflating titles, projecting constant enthusiasm, and crafting inspirational posts far removed from their actual work. The piece argues the platform rewards this roleplay over honest professional substance, and it is striking a chord with readers who feel the same exhaustion with corporate self-promotion culture online.
- 2Scattered Spider's MGM hack retold with low-poly potatoes▼How Scattered Spider shut down Las Vegas with one phone call, retold with low-poly potatoes 🥔 LinkedIn recon → help-desk
Scattered Spider's 2023 attack on MGM Resorts is being retold in a quirky animated explainer, with low-poly potato characters. The story shows how a single phone call, LinkedIn research and help-desk impersonation led to a password and MFA reset, ransomware across 100+ MGM servers and the shutdown of Las Vegas operations. The campaign later hit Caesars, M&S, Salesforce clients and TfL, where two members were arrested.