Cybercriminals have created websites that resemble Google and Yahoo in a deceptive way, all of it to attack human rights activists.

Amnesty International informs that hundreds of the above-mentioned activists received e-mails in which cybercriminals impersonated e-mail operators. By this hackers wanted to extort passwords and tokens that are necessary for two-factor verification.

Same hackers have also attempted to trick users of ProtonMail and Tutanot.

Chip emphasizes that social engineering is one of the most effective vectors of attack for hacking attempts aimed at extorting access to user’s sensitive data. One example of this may be the November breakdown of Google, which in fact turned out to be  a hacking attack, in which Gmail accounts were hijacked following extortion of login data.