"Iranian hackers" try to convince activists they are reporters

Motherboard reports on hilariously insistent efforts made by mystery correspondents to trick people into thinking they are news reporters.The campaign uses sophisticated techniques to get around the extra protection provided by Gmail's two-factor authentication, which requires a password and a token to log in, as detailed in a new report published on Thursday by Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs.