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June 13, 2013 11:18 am GMT
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Google Sees Jump in Iranian Phishing Scams as Election Looms
Google revealed on Wednesday that phishing activity in Iran has jumped, as its citizens prepare to hit the polls on Friday.
For nearly three weeks, the search giant has "detected and disrupted" tens of thousands of Iranian user accounts that were targeted by email-based phishing scams originating in Iran, according to a blog post blog post published Wednesday.
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"The timing and targeting of the campaigns suggest that the attacks are politically motivated in connection with the Iranian presidential election on Friday," wrote Eric Grosse, Google's vice-president of security engineering
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