Tibetan activists in China as well as those living in exile around the world are being targeted by dangerous malware that has graduated to reporting location data from mobile devices for surveillance purposes. Researchers say the attacks against the activists originate in China. A grassroots campaign teaching Tibetan activists to move away from communicating using email attachments may have led to a recent spike in watering hole attacks targeting websites frequented by the Uyghur and other Tibetan national groups. The campaign called Detach from Attachments is part of an ongoing effort by the Tibet Action Institute to educate oppressed people about how to safely communicate using technology and the Internet.
Source: https://threatpost.com/malware-arsenal-targets-tibetan-activists-040213/77689/