Thursday, June 13, 2013

Iranian Gmail users targeted on eve of election, Google says

<p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google said Wednesday that it has discovered and stopped a series of attempts to hack the accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users in what the company believes is an attempt to influence the country's upcoming election.</p><p>"For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns," Eric Grosse, the vice president for security engineering, wrote in a post on the company's blog.</p><p>The phishing campaigns are originating in Iran, targeting users there and representing a big surge in the region's hacking activity. They are apparently tied to Iran's presidential election Friday, Grosse said.</p><p>At schools, in shops, and on the streets of big cities and small towns, daily life plays out in Iran.</p><p><a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/13/18935549-iranian-gmail-users-targeted-on-eve-of-election-google-says?lite">Keep reading...</a></p>

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