{"id":947,"date":"2021-03-24T20:11:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/china-based-hackers-used-facebook-to-target-uighurs-abroad-with-malware\/"},"modified":"2021-03-24T20:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:11:36","slug":"china-based-hackers-used-facebook-to-target-uighurs-abroad-with-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/china-based-hackers-used-facebook-to-target-uighurs-abroad-with-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"China-based hackers used Facebook to target Uighurs abroad with malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hackers used malware to infect devices and enable surveillance<\/li>\n<li>Tech giant says hackers set up fake profiles to build trust<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> has blocked a group of hackers in China who used the platform to target <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/uighurs\">Uighurs<\/a> living abroad with links to malware that would infect their devices and enable surveillance.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/17\/think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests\">&#8216;Think of your family&#8217;: China threatens European citizens over Xinjiang protests<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/24\/facebook-blocks-china-based-hackers-uighurs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d5eedafd1ae4621239f5eb1be08be50f3cf95b86\/0_97_2923_1754\/master\/2923.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=22e0700c5aac6cf5f7eed86307018562\" title=\"China-based hackers used Facebook to target Uighurs abroad with malware\" \/>Hackers used malware to infect devices and enable surveillance<br \/>\nTech giant says hackers set up fake profiles to build trust<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has blocked a group of hackers in China who used the platform to target Uighurs living abroad with links to malware that would infect their devices and enable surveillance.<br \/>\n Related: &#8216;Think of your family&#8217;: China threatens European citizens over Xinjiang protests  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers used malware to infect devices and enable surveillance Tech giant says hackers set up fake profiles to build trust Facebook has blocked a group of hackers in China who used the platform to target Uighurs living abroad with links to malware that would infect their devices and enable surveillance. Related: &#8216;Think of your family&#8217;: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/china-based-hackers-used-facebook-to-target-uighurs-abroad-with-malware\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China-based hackers used Facebook to target Uighurs abroad with malware<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}