Iranian Hackers Used Fake Social Media Accounts for Espionage

A new report details how a group of hackers, believed to be based in Iran, used fake social media profiles to gather information on military and political figures in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel and elsewhere.

Security experts at iSight Partners are calling it the most sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign they’ve ever discovered.

The ruse stretched over the course of three years, during which the hackers built fake profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ to get closer to their targets.

They even created a fake news website that reposted content from wire services and the BBC. Read more...