https://news.hitb.org/index.php/ en https://news.hitb.org/index.php/content/mac-espionage-trojan-targets-uighur-activists <article data-history-node-id="44850" role="article" class="node article teaser clearfix UTF-8"> <header> <h2 class="title text-center"><a href="/index.php/content/mac-espionage-trojan-targets-uighur-activists" rel="bookmark"><span>Mac espionage trojan targets Uighur activists</span> </a></h2> <div class="meta submit clearfix"> <div class="date text-right"> <span class="lowercase">posted on</span>July 2, 2012 </div> <div class="author"> <span class="lowercase">by</span> <span><span>l33tdawg</span></span> </div> </div> </header> <div class="image-default"> <div> <a href="/index.php/content/mac-espionage-trojan-targets-uighur-activists" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/field/image/APT.png?itok=w3SwDxB3" width="179" height="220" alt="http://www.allspammedup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/APT.png" title="Credit: All Spammed Up " /> </a> </div> <div class="image-credit"> <strong>Credit:</strong> <a href="http://www.allspammedup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/APT.png" target="_blank">http://www.allspammedup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/APT.png</a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div><p>Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said Friday that they have come across a new "advanced persistent threat (APT)" campaign targeting Uighur activists who use Mac OS X.</p> <p>The backdoor, dubbed MaControl.b, is being used to spy on Uighur dissidents. On Wednesday, researchers said they discovered the "new wave" of APT attacks targeting the Turkik-speaking Muslim group, which mostly lives in the northwest Chinese province of Xinjiang.</p></div> </div> <div class="meta link clearfix"> <div class="comment"> <span class="lowercase">no</span>comment </div> <div class="share text-center show-for-medium"> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://news.hitb.org/index.php/content/mac-espionage-trojan-targets-uighur-activists" data-a2a-title="Mac espionage trojan targets Uighur activists"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"><span class="fa fa-facebook"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"><span class="fa fa-twitter"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin"><span class="fa fa-linkedin"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_email"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span></a></span> </div> <div class="read-more"><a href="/index.php/content/mac-espionage-trojan-targets-uighur-activists"><span class="lowercase">&#8594;</span>READ MORE</a></div> </div> </article> Mon, 02 Jul 2012 01:37:14 +0000 l33tdawg 44850 at https://news.hitb.org