{"id":41083,"date":"2021-05-27T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32327\/Hackers-Posing-As-The-United-Nations-Hacked-Uyghur-Muslims.html"},"modified":"2021-05-27T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:21:11","slug":"hackers-posing-as-the-united-nations-hacked-uyghur-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/hackers-posing-as-the-united-nations-hacked-uyghur-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Posing As The United Nations Hacked Uyghur Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"topic-callout\" readability=\"7.2888888888889\">\n<div class=\"topic-callout__img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/topic\/cyber\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/topics\/57a205628cb727dec795a6b1\/callout_logo\/1614199980283-screen-shot-2021-02-24-at-34918-pm.png?resize=240:*\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-02-24 at 3\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard&#8217;s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"27.330935251799\"><\/p>\n<p>Hackers posing as the United Nations targeted a small group of Uyghur muslims inside China and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/akgee4\/pakistan-is-cracking-down-on-uyghur-muslims-who-fled-china\">Pakistan<\/a>, according to security researchers.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"24.186813186813\"><\/p>\n<p>The hackers sent malicious documents pretending to be from the UN and set up a fake website for a human rights foundation in an attempt to identify people within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/8xz3qg\/they-come-for-us-at-night-inside-chinas-hidden-war-on-muslim-uighurs\">the Uyghur community<\/a>, according to cybersecurity company Check Point, <a href=\"https:\/\/research.checkpoint.com\/2021\/uyghurs-a-turkic-ethnic-minority-in-china-targeted-via-fake-foundations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which published a new report on Thursday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<div class=\"adph adph--border\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"29.625\"><\/p>\n<p>The research shows how persistent and creative hackers can be in going after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/qj4x7v\/most-dystopian-place-in-world-xinjiang-uighur\">one of the most oppressed and persecuted minorities<\/a> in the world. In the last few years, several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/01\/technology\/china-uighurs-hackers-malware-hackers-smartphones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cybersecurity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volexity.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/02\/digital-crackdown-large-scale-surveillance-and-exploitation-of-uyghurs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">companies<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-cyber-uighurs\/china-hacked-asian-telcos-to-spy-on-uighur-travelers-sources-idUSKCN1VQ1A5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media organizations<\/a>, and tech giants such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/qvgv4p\/apple-disputes-googles-claims-of-a-devastating-iphone-hack\">Google<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-china-cyber\/chinese-hackers-used-facebook-to-target-uighurs-abroad-company-says-idUSKBN2BG2UU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>\u2014have discovered hacking campaigns targeting Uyghurs, a Muslim minority from the Xinjiang region in China. Uyghurs there live in what the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/35ab4fdc95a64a849e8d9a960bab50df\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN described<\/a> as a \u201cmassive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy,\u201d and many of them have been detained, deported to other regions in China, or forced to flee out of the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"31\"><\/p>\n<p>The hackers behind the campaign, whom researchers believe may be Chinese-speaking, also tried to trick targets into running a fake antivirus scanner before opening the malicious documents in an attempt to exploit their fears of getting hacked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<div class=\"adph adph--border\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"30\"><\/p>\n<p>The scanner that was supposed to protect the targets was in fact the malware designed to hack them, according to the researchers, who collaborated with Kaspersky Lab on their report.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"32\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They understand that the Uyghurs or people that are trying to attack have a high security awareness and they leverage this,&#8221; Lotem Finkelsteen, the threat intelligence group manager at Check Point, told Motherboard in a phone call. &#8220;They use their paranoia and leverage that to their own goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-image\" data-component=\"ImageBlock\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"body-image__img\">\n<div><picture class=\"responsive-image lazyloader--lazy lazyloader--lowres\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1622060317828-screen-shot-2021-05-26-at-103418-am.png?resize=20:*\"><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1622060317828-screen-shot-2021-05-26-at-103418-am.png?resize=20:*\"><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1622060317828-screen-shot-2021-05-26-at-103418-am.png?resize=20:*\"><img class=\"responsive-image__img\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-05-26 at 10.34.18 AM.png\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body-image__caption\" readability=\"33\">\n<p>A screenshot of the malicious antivirus scanner that the hackers tricked targets into installing. (Image: Check Point)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"34.426229508197\"><\/p>\n<p>The hackers were going after high-profile people within the Uyghur community, people who may be interested in reading UN documents discussing human rights violations, and people who may want to apply for a grant from a foundation. In this case, hackers set up a fake UN website, and a fake website that purported to offer grants from the&nbsp; Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation. <a href=\"https:\/\/turk-pa.org\/en\/content\/cooperation\/heritageandculture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The organization is real<\/a>, but the hackers set up a malicious fake website for it with content lifted from the Open Society Foundations, according to the researchers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-image\" data-component=\"ImageBlock\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"body-image__img\">\n<div><picture class=\"responsive-image lazyloader--lazy lazyloader--lowres\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1622060360550-fake-un.png?resize=20:*\"><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1622060360550-fake-un.png?resize=20:*\"><source media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1622060360550-fake-un.png?resize=20:*\"><img class=\"responsive-image__img\" alt=\"fake-un.png\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body-image__caption\" readability=\"33\">\n<p>A screenshot of the malicious fake UN document sent to the targets of the hacking campaign. (Image: Check Point)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"32\"><\/p>\n<p>Researchers said that the malware used against the targets was not designed to steal any data, but to simply give hackers a profile of the people they were going after, and the type of computers they were using. The hackers&#8217; goal was to whittle down the number of targets and then personalize the malware to send them in a second stage of the campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"31\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely an attempt to filter and characterize the victims within this community,&#8221; Finkelsteen said. &#8220;They are trying to filter people with the right interest and the right relations, then they try to fingerprint the systems they use.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-component=\"QuoteBlock\" class=\"abc__quote abc__quote--blockquote\" readability=\"8.3745173745174\">\n<p><strong>Do you research or track hacking campaigns against Uyghurs or other minorities? We\u2019d love to hear from you. You can contact Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai securely on Signal at +1 917 257 1382, OTR chat at lorenzofb@jabber.ccc.de, or email <a href=\"mailto:lorenzofb@vice.com\">lorenzofb@vice.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"27\"><\/p>\n<p>Researchers said they were not able to observe the second stage of the campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"35\"><\/p>\n<p>The researchers were unable to definitively determine exactly who is behind this campaign, but wrote in the report that they have &#8220;low to medium confidence&#8221; that it&#8217;s a Chinese-speaking group, based on who they were going after, and the fact that they used code from a Chinese hacking forum. The campaign was active last year, but researchers said they were able to find some new infrastructure this year that linked to the campaign. This shows the hackers are still actively going after Uyghurs and may be expanding their scope to other countries like Malaysia and Turkey, researchers said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"abc__textblock size--article\" data-component=\"TextBlock\" readability=\"25.803921568627\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Subscribe to our cybersecurity podcast CYBER, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cyber\/id1441708044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32327\/Hackers-Posing-As-The-United-Nations-Hacked-Uyghur-Muslims.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE 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