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 of the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, but also from other countries.
The subject matter experts better safetyς της iSight Partners την έχουν αποκαλέσει την πιο εξελιγμένη εκστρατεία κυβερνο-espionageς που έχει ανακαλυφθεί ποτέ. Ας δούμε όμως τον τρόπο που κινούταν οι hackers που σαν βασικό στόχο είχαν την συλλογή πληροφοριών.
The trick of hackers has been spreading over the past three years. During the past three years, hackers created fake profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ to get closer to their goals.
Δημιούργησαν ακόμη και μια πλαστή ιστοσελίδα ειδήσεων που αναδημοσίευε περιεχόμενο από services such as the BBC and other major news agencies.
Hackers' goals “remain unclear.” According to iSight, hackers could have collected key activities and locations of their victims, updates from social networks, usernames and passwords from spear-phishing attacks, and more malware information that was designed to extract 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.
