Citizen Lab says exiled Uyghur leaders targeted with Windows spyware

Unknown hackers targeted the leaders of the exile in a campaign involving Windows Spyware last month, researchers on Monday.

Citizens Lab, a digital right research group based on the University of Toronto, Detail A spy campaign against members of the World Aghur Congress (WC), an organization that represents the Muslim-women-group group, which has been suppressed, discrimination, discrimination over the years, MonitorAnd Hacking From the Chinese government.

According to the report, Google warned some WUC members in the hacking promoting in mid -March, persuading members to contact journalists and citizen lab researchers, the report said.

Citizen Lab has found a target by investigating Phishing Email has been sent to the members of the WEUC, creating a loyal communication pseudo who has sent a Google Drive link to a password-protected brief file for a Ughur language text editor’s contaminated version.

Researchers said that the promotion was not particularly sophisticated and was not involved in it Zero-day absorption Or Rented spywareHowever, it is mentioned that “the supply of malware shown a high level of social engineering, which expressed the deep understanding of the invaders’ goals.”