Exclusive: Hackers linked to Iran target WHO staff emails during coronavirus - sources

FILE PHOTO: Traffic passes the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization during the coronavirus disease outbreak in Washington, D.C., U.S. March 22, 2020. Picture taken with a long exposure. REUTERS/Raphael Satter/File Photo

The latest effort has been ongoing since March 2 and attempted to steal passwords from WHO staff by sending malicious messages designed to mimic Google web services to their personal email accounts, a common hacking technique known as “phishing,” according to four people briefed on the attacks. Reuters confirmed their findings by reviewing a string of malicious websites and other forensic data.

Iran’s government denied any involvement. “These are all sheer lies to put more pressure on Iran,” said a spokesman at Iran’s information technology ministry. “Iran has been a victim of hacking.” The motives of the hackers was not clear, but targeting officials at their personal accounts is a longstanding intelligence-gathering technique.

Iran has suffered enormous loss of life from the coronavirus, and infections have reached the inner circle of the country’s leadership.

sandy49855 Wonder what they found

Evil always comes from the mullahs

Why the Hell would they do that when the WHO tried to help them with their CoronavirusPandemic problem. What a bunch of ungrateful morons in Iran.

Send them a few replies (Reaper drones with attached Ginsu's) coronavirus

Hopefully they leak the emails and expose who Tedros really is

.Hacias?

Well it’s clear Chinese hackers would touch the CCP backed WHO!

Another excuse again! The media is going overdrive..

Eh no big loss there.

Who cares? Those guys have proven to be irrelevant

Isn't this country is famous for it's strong relationship with:terrorists?

to the great and civilized people of the United States and other countries ： Donald Trump, because of his inability to control the corona virus, intends to create an artificial crisis in the Middle East by waging war in Iraq to prevent a possible defeat in the next election.

Iran is the country of Terrorist.

WHO Just the Iran hacker's..? I have got problem with China one, that for years...

WHO We actually need those emails. WHO is not being honest. Hope we get an independent tribunal going asap into WHO and their role in suppressing the CCPvirus on behalf of the CCP.

WHO How they gonna spin this against trump

WHO 'sources'?

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