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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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Iran Spies Pose as Reporters to Target Lawmakers
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Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change.
(Score: 5, Funny) by lx on Thursday May 29 2014, @02:43PM
The fake reporters were quickly found out when they started asking hard hitting questions to politicians and when they conducted actual investigations instead of reprinting press releases verbatim.
Leading journalists quickly pointed out that such unprofessional behavior is strongly discouraged at all reputable news outlets.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 29 2014, @10:18PM
Lol .. maybe next time they'll come back as lobbyists and just tell senators what they want done instead.