Hackers have been going after email accounts of hundreds of Middle East-based human rights activists, journalists and others using methods that bypass security features of services like Google, Yahoo, ProtonMail and Tutanota, according to a report published Wednesday by Amnesty International. The human rights watchdog says its likely that a single group of hackers has been using clever pages that mimic secure login pages, as well as tricks that bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) to target accounts at least throughout 2017 and 2018. The targets are mostly in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Yemen and Palestine, the group said. “What makes these campaigns especially troubling is the lengths to which they go to subvert the digital security strategies of their targets,” the group says in the report. Amnesty International analyzes the activity as two separate campaigns. One uses fake pages that look like they belong to ProtonMail and Tutanota in order to get […]
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