{"id":665941,"date":"2025-04-28T20:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/citizen-lab-says-exiled-uyghur-leaders-targeted-with-windows-spyware\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T20:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:55:16","slug":"citizen-lab-says-exiled-uyghur-leaders-targeted-with-windows-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/citizen-lab-says-exiled-uyghur-leaders-targeted-with-windows-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Lab says exiled Uyghur leaders targeted with Windows spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unknown hackers last month targeted leaders of the exiled Uyghur community in a campaign involving Windows spyware, researchers revealed Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Citizen Lab, a digital rights research group based at the University of Toronto, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.ca\/2025\/04\/uyghur-language-software-hijacked-to-deliver-malware\/\">detailed<\/a> an espionage campaign against members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an organization that represents the Muslim-minority group, which has for years faced repression, discrimination, surveillance, and hacking from China\u2019s government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google alerted some WUC members to the hacking campaign in mid-March, prompting the members to contact journalists and Citizen Lab\u2019s researchers, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Citizen Lab investigated and found a targeted phishing email sent to members of WUC, impersonating a trusted contact who sent a Google Drive link for a password-protected compressed file containing a malicious version of a Uyghur language text editor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers said the campaign wasn\u2019t\u00a0particularly sophisticated and didn\u2019t involve zero-day exploits or mercenary spyware, but noted that \u201cthe delivery of the malware showed a high level of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> engineering, revealing the attackers\u2019 deep understanding of the target community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/category\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/28\/citizen-lab-says-exiled-uyghur-leaders-targeted-with-windows-spyware\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown hackers last month targeted leaders of the exiled Uyghur community in a campaign involving Windows spyware, researchers revealed Monday.\u00a0 Citizen Lab, a digital rights research group based at the University of Toronto, detailed an espionage campaign against members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an organization that represents the Muslim-minority group, which has for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":665942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/uyghur-protest.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75857,4973,151935,70375,26293,151418,72287,151937,77526,72780],"class_list":["post-665941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-malware","tag-china","tag-citizen-lab","tag-cybersecurity","tag-google","tag-in-brief","tag-security","tag-spyware","tag-uyghurs","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}