Facebook said it disrupted a hacking operation that used the social media platform to spread iOS and Android malware that spied on Uyghur people from the Xinjiang region of China. The hackers planted the malware on websites frequented by activists, journalists, and dissidents who originally came from Xinjiang and had later moved abroad. Facebook’s post shows that even after being exposed by researchers, the hackers have remained active. Facebook also named two China-based companies it said had developed some of the Android malware.”]

