The timing and targeting of the campaigns suggest that the attacks are politically motivated in connection with the Iranian presidential election on Friday. Using a modern browser like Chrome and enabling 2-step verification can make you significantly more secure against these and many other types of attacks. The phishing technique we detected is more routine: users receive an email containing a link to a web page that purports to provide a way to perform account maintenance. If the user clicks the link, they see a fake Google sign-in page that will steal their username and password.”]
Source: https://security.googleblog.com/2013/06/iranian-phishing-on-rise-as-elections.html