The Associated Press has found that a hacking group often nicknamed Charming Kitten has spent the past month trying to break into the personal emails of more than a dozen U.S. Treasury officials.
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Also on the hackers' hit list are high-profile opponents, defenders and enforcers of the nuclear deal struck between Washington and Tehran, along with Arab atomic scientists, D.C. think tank employees and Iranian civil society figures.
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Although those addresses likely represent only a fraction of the hackers' overall effort they still provide considerable insight into Tehran's espionage priorities.
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The list surfaced after London-based cybersecurity outfit Certfa found an unsecured server and extracted a list of 77 Gmail and Yahoo addresses targeted by the hackers.
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