Researchers uncover malicious sites targeting China’s Uyghur population
Eleven websites related to China’s Uyghur population and the East Turkestan region where they reside were compromised and exploited as part of a surveillance operation that may be connected to an iOS hacking campaign revealed last week, according to new security research. Volexity, an incident response and digital forensics firm, on Monday said at least 11 websites had been “strategically compromised and leveraged as part of a series of attack campaigns” aimed at the Uyghur people. By using the affected websites — which range from the Uighur Times, the Turkistan Press, Turkistan TV, and the Uyghur Academy — hackers could infect visitors’ Android devices and collect information including the unique identification number, the phone number, location, CPU data, username and other sensitive details. Volexity did not directly attribute the attack to Beijing, saying only that two advanced persistent threat (APT) groups with ties to Chinese were behind it. The Chinese […]
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