Just today, on the eve of the election, Google reported to have recorded and blocked hundreds of attacks against Gmail users in Iran. The Vice-President of the safety of Google Eric Grosse pointed out that "The timing and the choice of targets suggests that the attacks are politically motivated"

Google follows, as usual, the policy of "we block everything and we all feel" but still have not managed to find the direct culprit, they managed only to specify that attempts to steal passwords and other personal data are from the inside of the parties 'Iran.

The phishing attempt is party to an email received by the administrators of Google apparently from address "email.settings @ gmail.com" which contains a link to bogus asking you to enter your crediziali Gmail in order to improve their safety ( what an irony!) and was redirected to the following link where you would have to enter additional personal data.

The BBC reported that in the last three weeks, to coincide with the election campaign, the American company has noticed a significant increase in the activity of phishing in the region, but attempts to hack were identified and subsequently blocked, thanks to a system safety introduced by the U.S. in the last update of the Chrome browser.

Eric Grosse, meanwhile, called on Iranian users to take further steps to protect their accounts from attacks, according to him, probably Iranian state-sponsored.

It will be a coincidence or a "game" politician?

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