The UK’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, has raised alarms about Chinese intelligence operations that are leveraging LinkedIn to target members of the UK Parliament and their staff. The agency emphasized that Beijing is employing headhunters as part of a covert strategy to gather sensitive information from government officials. Dan Jarvis, the British security minister, described these efforts as a ‘covert and calculated attempt’ by China to obtain classified information from government personnel. The warning comes amid growing concerns about the potential for foreign interference in national security and the use of social media platforms to conduct espionage activities.