Google says it has detected and stopped thousands of phishing attacks targeting email accounts of Iranian users.
“For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns”,Eric Grosse, the vice president for security engineering, wrote in a post.
“The timing and targeting of the campaigns suggest that the attacks are politically motivated,” he said.
Mr Grosse said victims targeted in the attacks had received an email containing a link to a web page purporting to perform account maintenance.
If they clicked the link, they were taken to a fake Google sign-in page, which would steal their username and password.
Google said it used its Chrome browser to detect phishing efforts from what appears to be the same Iranian group in 2011.
