Iran-email hacking school linked to :report

Researchers have linked a sophisticated hacking scheme targeting Iranian dissidents back to Iran, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.

A report released Thursday by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs describes how the hackers used text message and phone-based phishing to try to get around the security of Google’s Gmail and access the accounts of their targets.

The attacks studied by the Citizen Lab were very similar to others connected to Iranian hackers, the report says.