Google is going on the offensive, advising its Iranian users to change their email passwords to avoid falling victim to online attacks.
The news comes after the massive DigiNotar breach on July 19, during which an Iranian hacker stole a Google authentication certificate from DigiNotar, a Dutch certificate authority.
The theft allowed the hacker to set up fraudulent Web pages under a legitimate Google domain name, and in turn harvest the personal information from any visitors to his spoofed sites.
[Cracked Digital Certificates Endanger Entire Online 'Web of Trust']
"We learned last week that the compromise of a Dutch company involved with verifying the authenticity of websites could have put the Internet communications of many Iranians at risk, including their Gmail," Eric Grosse, Google's VP of security engineering, wrote on a company blog.
The Iranian perpetrator, who calls himself "Comodohacker," also claims to have stolen certificates for 531 sites, including Facebook, Skype, Mozilla, Microsoft, Yahoo, Android and Twitter, as well as domains belonging to the CIA and Israel's Mossad.
The news comes after the massive DigiNotar breach on July 19, during which an Iranian hacker stole a Google authentication certificate from DigiNotar, a Dutch certificate authority.
The theft allowed the hacker to set up fraudulent Web pages under a legitimate Google domain name, and in turn harvest the personal information from any visitors to his spoofed sites.
[Cracked Digital Certificates Endanger Entire Online 'Web of Trust']
"We learned last week that the compromise of a Dutch company involved with verifying the authenticity of websites could have put the Internet communications of many Iranians at risk, including their Gmail," Eric Grosse, Google's VP of security engineering, wrote on a company blog.
The Iranian perpetrator, who calls himself "Comodohacker," also claims to have stolen certificates for 531 sites, including Facebook, Skype, Mozilla, Microsoft, Yahoo, Android and Twitter, as well as domains belonging to the CIA and Israel's Mossad.
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