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Published: 13 Apr 2021 04:17 PM BdST
Updated: 13 Apr 2021 04:17 PM BdST Ethnic Uighurs, who are largely Muslim, walk past a mosque in Kashgar, in western China, Aug 7, 2019. The New York Times
Before Chinese police hung high-powered surveillance cameras and locked up ethnic minorities by the hundreds of thousands in China’s western region of Xinjiang, China’s hackers went to work building malware, researchers say. );
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The Chinese hacking campaign, which researchers at Lookout the San Francisco mobile security firm said Wednesday had begun in earnest as far back as 2013 and continues to this day, was part of a broad but often invisible effort to pull in data from the devices that know people best: their smartphones.
IMF makes headway in talks with Zambia
Zambia’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund is progressing. The Southern African nation is requesting for support under the IMF’s Extended Credit Facility. Over 3 billion dollars in Eurobonds debt and a further 3 billion dollars owed to China. These are just some of challenges at stake as both parties ready for more talks in the weeks ahead.
The IMF wants Zambia to come clear on its debt and implement austerity measures. The southern African copper producer became the continent’s first pandemic-era sovereign default after missing a coupon payment on a dollar bond in November.
Pro-India hackers use Android spyware to spy on Pakistani military
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This week a report has revealed details on two Android spyware strains leveraged by state-sponsored threat actors during the India-Pakistan conflict.
The malware strains named
SunBird have been delivered as fake Android apps (APKs) by the
Confucius advanced persistent threat group (APT), a pro-India state-sponsored operation known to spy on Pakistani and South Asian targets, since at least 2013.
Although Confucius has created Windows malware in the past, the group has extended its capabilities to mobile malware since 2017 when the spying app ChatSpy came into existence.
The apps used by the group contain advanced capabilities including taking photos from the camera, requesting elevated privileges, scraping WhatsApp messages, and uploading all this information to the servers of the APT group.
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