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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 29 2014, @10:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 29 2014, @10:18PM (#48939)

    Lol .. maybe next time they'll come back as lobbyists and just tell senators what they want done instead.

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