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Targeted Attack Campaign Uses Android Malware
Trailrunner7 writes "Android attacks have become all the rage in the last year or two, and targeted attacks against political activists in Tibet, Iran and other countries have been bubbling up to the surface more and more often. Now, those two trends have converged with the discovery of a targeted attack campaign that's going after Tibetan and Uyghur activists with a spear-phishing message containing a malicious APK file. Researchers say the attack appears to be coming from Chinese sources. The new campaign began a few days ago when unknown attackers were able to compromise the email account of a well-known Tibetan activist. The attackers then used that account to begin sending a series of spear-phishing messages to other activists in the victim's contact list. One of the messages referred to a human rights conference in Geneva in March, using the recipients' legitimate interest in the conference as bait to get them to open the attachment. The malicious attachment in the emails is named 'WUC's Conference.apk.'"
The is a lot of misguided white noise post here, which misses the heart of the matter.
Tibet was invaded and occupied by China in 1949. China/CCP is still trying to convince the world that Tibet is part of China and politically is winning this battle. But "the resistance," ongoing. These attacks are aimed at the resistance.
@ erroneus (253617), your lack of trust of your own "friends," is sad. Other peeps trust theres. Upgrade time?
@ interkin3tic, Tibetans are regularly tortured or murdered, by the CCP, in occupied Tibet. Perhaps you could do something to reform the political situation you are in, instead of having a wee tanty at those who expose abuses of power? If it was good enough for Martin Luther King, Gandi and Nelson Mandela, perhaps you could try?
Technically, it is interesting to analyse how the CCP coded.
In Buddhist and political terms, Stand up for a Free Tibet, please? :-)
GreekGeek :-)