Google sees pre-election spike in Iranian phishing activity

SweX · Jun 13, 2013

Google reports that it has disrupted multiple e-mail phishing campaigns intended to compromise the accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users in the last three weeks. The campaigns originate from within Iran and are likely to be connected to the presidential election on 14 June, given the timing of the jump in phishing activity in the country. The same group seems to be using SSL certificates to conduct attacks on these target users, Google Chrome browser data shows. The targets are sent an e-mail with a link purporting to provide Google account maintenance, but actually steals their username and password.
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