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Iranian group created fake news organization as part of hacking campaign |
May 29, 2014
A suspected Iranian hacker group seeded Facebook and LinkedIn with bogus profiles of attractive women and even created a fake online news organization to get digitally closer to more than 2,000 people whom it wanted to spy on.Once they had befriended their targets through fake profiles, the people were emailed malicious links designed primarily to steal email account credentials, according to a report titled “The Newscaster Threat,” released Thursday by iSight Partners, a security consultancy.“If you can get into the corporate email client, there is a lot of intelligence gathering capability,” said Patrick McBride, vice president of iSight’s marketing and communications, in a phone interview.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2262180/iranian-group-created-fake-news-organization-as-part-of-hacking-campaign.html#tk.rss_all
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