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Google Targets Phishing Campaigns Ahead Of Iran Presidential Elections

Calendar Jun 14, 2013 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Google has detected large-scale phishing attacks targeting users in Iran, ahead of presidential elections in the country. The company has detected and disrupted for almost three weeks email-based phishing campaigns that are aimed at compromising the accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users, Eric Grosse, Google's vice president for security engineering wrote in a blog post Wednesday.

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