Hackers Target Uyghurs and Tibetans with MOONSHINE Exploit and DarkNimbus Backdoor

A previously undocumented threat activity cluster dubbed Earth Minotaur is leveraging the MOONSHINE exploit kit and an unreported Android-cum-Windows backdoor called DarkNimbus to facilitate long-term surveillance operations targeting Tibetans and Uyghurs. "Earth Minotaur uses MOONSHINE to delive...

Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store

Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store. An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been downloaded from Play roughly 100 times before Google took it down last April after being tipped off by security firm ESET. It was also...

Experts Uncover Two Long-Running Android Spyware Campaigns Targeting Uyghurs

Two long-running surveillance campaigns have been found targeting the Uyghur community in China and elsewhere with Android spyware tools designed to harvest sensitive information and track their whereabouts. This encompasses a previously undocumented malware strain called BadBazaar and updated...

Facebook removes 100s of accounts for spreading iOS, Android malware

By Waqas The hackers were using malware campaigns to target iOS and Android devices used by Uyghurs living outside China including journalists. Facebook has removed accounts of hackers possibly backed by the Chinese government for targeting Uyghur community members living abroad. According to...

Facebook Moves Against ‘Evil Eye’ Hackers Targeting Uyghurs

The company’s investigation into a Chinese espionage campaign took researchers beyond Facebook’s own platforms...

China’s insidious surveillance against Uyghurs with Android malware

By Sudais Asif China for long has been persecuting Uyghurs Muslims on the pretext of countering extremist ideologies... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: China's insidious surveillance against Uyghurs with Android malware...

New Android Spyware Tools Emerge in Widespread Surveillance Campaign

Researchers have uncovered a surveillance campaign, dating back to at least 2013, which has used a slew of Android surveillanceware tools to spy on the Uyghur ethnic minority group. The campaign uses three never-before-seen Android surveillanceware tools, dubbed SilkBean, GoldenEagle and...

New iOS vulnerability being exploited to spy on Uyghurs in China

By Sudais Asif It is being revealed that a new and critical iOS vulnerability is being exploited to spy on the Uyghurs minority in China. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New iOS vulnerability being exploited to spy on Uyghurs in China...

Massive iPhone Hack Targets Uyghurs

China is being blamed for a massive surveillance operation that targeted Uyghur Muslims. This story broke in waves, the first wave being about the iPhone. Earlier this year, Google's Project Zero found a series of websites that have been using zero-day vulnerabilities to indiscriminately install...

Inside China’s Surveillance Crackdown on Uyghurs

In Xinjiang, northwest China, the government is cracking down on the minority Muslim Uyghur population, keeping them under constant surveillance and throwing more than a million people into concentration camps. But in Istanbul, 3,000 miles away, a community of women who have escaped a life of...