Η iSight warns: A new report details how a group of hackers, believed to be from Iran, used fake social media profiles to gather information from military and political figures in the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, and other countries.
ISight Partners' security experts have called it the most sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign ever discovered. But let's look at the way hackers were moving, whose main purpose was to collect information.
The trick of hackers has been spreading for the last three years. During the three years the hackers created fake profiles on Facebook, Twitter, the LinkedIn and Google+ to get closer to their goals.
They even created a fake news site that republished content from services like the BBC and other major news agencies.
The hackers' goals "remain unclear." According to iSight, hackers could have collected basic activities and locations of their victims, updates from social networks, usernames and codeς πρόσβασης από επιθέσεις spear-phishing, καθώς και άλλες πληροφορίες από κακόβουλο λογισμικό που ήταν σχεδιασμένο για να αποbreak information from its targets.
The fake news site is registered in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Its content contains malicious iframes that serve malware.
The security company that discovered the malicious campaign worked with the FBI, and to inform government agencies and its customers, published the report you can find here. As for the rest, it's a reminder: Do not trust that you see on social networks.
