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 variants of an espionage artifact dubbedΒ MOONSHINEΒ by researchers from the University of Toronto's
A new wave of a mobile surveillance campaign has been observed targeting the Uyghur community as part of a long-standing spyware operation active since at least 2015, cybersecurity researchers disclosed Thursday.
The intrusions, originally attributed to a threat actor namedΒ Scarlet MimicΒ back in January 2016, is said to have encompassed 20 different variants of the Android malware, which were
A previously undocumented strain of Android spyware with extensive information gathering capabilities has been found disguised as a book likely designed to target theΒ Uyghur communityΒ in China.
The malware comes under the guise of a book titled "The China Freedom Trap," a biography written by the exiled Uyghur leader Dolkun Isa.
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