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Pro-Democracy Websites In Hong Kong Targeted With and Serving Malware

Posted by timothy on from the you'd-like-things-like-this-to-be-shocking dept.

An anonymous reader writes A threat campaign tracking report released by Volexity shows that a number of high profile websites related to the Hong Kong democracy movement have been infected with malware. This malware targets both the web servers themselves as well as website visitors. The sophistication and scope of the malware likely points to government involvement as has been the case in previous campaigns targeting Asian charities and government reform organizations.

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  1. Re:Clearly Western Interference by ozduo · · Score: 1, Insightful

    please give me citation of a country where Democracy brought freedom to the masses.

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  2. Foolish by freeze128 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That move seems just really childish for a government. Couldn't the government just take down the DNS entries of those sites, rather than install malware? Also, this will only help to legitimize the pro-democracy movement. It makes more sense that this was done by script kiddies with an agenda.

    1. Re:Foolish by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Indeed. The Chinese Government must have read "How Not to Tick Off a Large City", and did the opposite of the advice. Why would anyone want to go back to being governed by a cheating bully?

      (Other than at gun-point, which it may come down to now.)

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