• eWeek, Thursday, June 13, 2013 4:18 PM

Iran is preparing for its national elections on June 14th and at the same time Google has noticed a spike in email phishing campaigns in the region. "For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns aimed at compromising the accounts owned by tens of thousands of Iranian users," Google's vice president of security engineering Eric Grosse wrote on the Google Online Security blog yesterday. These phishing campaigns are coming from the region and represent a significant jump the volume that the region normally sees.

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