Chinese hackers used Facebook to target Uighurs in Australia, elsewhere
A group of hackers in China who used Facebook to target Uighurs living abroad, including in Australia, with links to malware that would infect their devices and enable surveillance were blocked, the social media company, Facebook, said on Thursday.It said the hackers, known as Earth Empusa or Evil Eye in the security industry, targeted activists, journalists and dissidents who were predominantly Uighurs.Facebook said there were fewer than 500 targets, who were largely from the Xinjiang region but were primarily living abroad in countries including Turkey, Kazakhstan, the United States, Syria, Australia and Canada.It said the majority of the hackers’ activity occurred away from Facebook and that they used the site to share links to malicious websites rather than directly sharing the malware