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Iran Spies Pose as Reporters to Target Lawmakers

posted by NCommander on Thursday May 29 2014, @02:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the be-careful-who-you-friend dept.

AnonTechie writes:

A three-year espionage campaign, believed to have originated in Iran, has used an elaborate scheme involving a fabricated news agency, fake social media accounts and bogus journalist identities to trick victims in the United States, Israel and elsewhere. iSight Partners has released a report showing that it believes the attackers have built an elaborate universe of fake personas bolstered by secondary accounts all for the purpose of garnering the trust of their targets by using fake accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Google+.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by isostatic on Thursday May 29 2014, @02:21PM

    by isostatic (365) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 29 2014, @02:21PM (#48743) Journal

    Someone having an account on google+ would be the first warning sign.

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