Report links sophisticated hacking scheme to Iran

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/report-links-hacking-scheme-to-iran/

By AP
August 27, 2015

NEW YORK — Researchers have linked a sophisticated hacking scheme 
targeting Iranian dissidents back to Iran.

A report released Thursday by the Citizen Lab at the University of 
Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs describes how the hackers used 
text message and phone-based phishing to try to get around the security of 
Google’s Gmail and access the accounts of their targets.

The attacks studied by the Citizen Lab were very similar to others 
connected to Iranian hackers, the report says.

According to the report, some of the attacks began when the targets 
received text messages that appeared to be from Google saying that there 
had been an unauthorized attempt to access their Gmail accounts

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