Citizen Laborat

The researchers revealed on Monday that the infiltrators unknown last month targeted the leaders of the Ouigur community in a campaign that included Windows spyware.

Citizen Lab, a digital rights research group based at the University of Toronto, detailed A spy campaign against the Uyghur (WUC) members, an organization that represents the group of Islamic rulings, which has faced for years of repression and discrimination, monitoringAnd the pirate From the government of China.

The report said that Google alerted some WUC members to the piracy campaign in the middle of March, prompting members to contact journalists and Citizen Lab.

Citizen Laboratory investigated and found targeted Hunting Email was sent to WUC members, which leads to a reliable contact character sent the Google Drive link to get a password -protected compact file containing a malicious version of Uyghur.

The researchers said that the campaign was not especially developed and did not include The exploits of zero day or Mercenary spywareBut I noticed that “the delivery of malicious programs showed a high level of social engineering, which reveals the profound understanding of the targeted attackers.”