Elections before the hacking campaign targeted Iranian Gmail users: Google

Iranian users of Gmail accounts belonging to the closely watched thousands Friday leading up to the presidential election weeks have been targeted in a mass hacking campaign, Google Inc said on Wednesday.

Larger "e-mail-based phishing" attacks as the U.S. Internet company stated, their user names and passwords to your unsuspecting Gmail users try to cheat He said Iran was "politically motivated to publish in Iran's presidential election on Friday."


Google ", state-sponsored attacks and other suspicious activity," it is a policy to notify users that the fraudulent digital certificates that include a Gmail hacking campaign back in 2011, the same group that appear to be Continue to identify the perpetrators did not.

Most recent phishing campaigns started about three weeks ago, Google said. "Time and campaigns targeting" polls suggested a connection, Google said without explanation.

The Security Blog on Wednesday, the company purporting to be from Google administrators a phishing e-mail screenshot posted. Sent e-mail account, "Email.Settings @ gmail.com, the" user credentials for Gmail that there is a link to a fake sign-in page.

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