{"id":50133,"date":"2022-11-11T06:25:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/10\/spyware-targeting-ugyhurs-android-apps-report"},"modified":"2022-11-11T06:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T21:25:06","slug":"spyware-targets-uyghurs-by-masquerading-as-android-apps-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50133","title":{"rendered":"Spyware targets Uyghurs by \u2018masquerading\u2019 as Android apps \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say spyware is connected to a Chinese government-backed hacking group<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a spyware campaign that is targeting Uyghurs by \u201cmasquerading\u201d as Android apps including messaging services, prayer time apps and dictionaries, according to a new report by the cloud security firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lookout.com\/blog\/uyghur-surveillance-campaign-badbazaar-moonshine\">Lookout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The spyware, which researchers say is connected to a Chinese government-backed hacking group, can be used to track people who use services that may be considered a \u201cpre-crime\u201d or are seen by China as indications that someone is engaging in or will engage in religious extremist or separatist activities. \u201cPre-crime\u201d activities include using a virtual private network (VPN) or sharing any kind of religious content and can lead to being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/13\/former-xinjiang-detainee-arrives-in-us-to-testify-over-china-abuses\">detained in a re-education camp.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/10\/spyware-targeting-ugyhurs-android-apps-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say spyware is connected to a Chinese government-backed hacking groupCybersecurity researchers have discovered a spyware campaign that is targeting Uyghurs by \u201cmasquerading\u201d as Android apps including messaging services, prayer time apps and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,667,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-espionage","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50134,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50133\/revisions\/50134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}