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Hackers pretend to be Wall Street Journal reporter to phish victims

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Iranian hackers may have impersonated a renowned reporter to trick victims worldwide into transferring their passwords, according to a latest security report. In November a group of hackers sent interview request emails that pretended to come from Farnaz Fassihi, former Wall Street Journal and now New York Times reporter. However, the emails were designed to phish the login credentials of the victims' email accounts.