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Hackers Using Fake Foundations to Target Uyghur Minority in China

The Uyghur community located in China and Pakistan has been the subject of an ongoing espionage campaign. The latest cyber offensive follows a similar modus operandi in that the attacks involve sending UN-themed decoy documents (“UgyhurApplicationList”) to the targets under the pretext of discussing human rights violations. The goal of the phishing message is to lure the recipients into installing a backdoor on the Windows machines. Only a handful of victims have been identified so far, based on telemetry data compiled during the analysis.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/hackers-using-fake-foundations-to.html

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