Cyber-espionage campaign found targeting exiled Uyghurs (Suzanne Smalley – The Record)

Senior members of an international organization for exiled members of China’s Uyghur ethnic minority were targeted in March with a spearphishing campaign designed to install Windows-based malware allowing them to be remotely surveilled. The campaign, which began last May or potentially even earlier, involved a file mimicking an authentic Uyghur-language open source word processing and spellcheck tool, according to the Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto-based research institute specializing in digital repression and forensics.

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