Chinese Hackers Used Facebook to Hack Uighur Muslims Living Abroad


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Chinese Hackers Used Facebook to Hack Uighur Muslims Living Abroad Jarvis 2nd April 2021 0 0 Facebook may be banned in China, but the company on Wednesday said it has disrupted a network of bad actors using its platform to target the Uyghur community and lure them into downloading malicious software that would allow surveillance of their devices. “They targeted activists, journalists and dissidents predominantly among Uyghurs from Xinjiang in China primarily living abroad in Turkey, Kazakhstan, the United States, Syria, Australia, Canada and other countries,” Facebook’s Head of Cyber Espionage Investigations, Mike Dvilyanski, and Head of Security Policy, Nathaniel...