Hacks part of a wide cyber-espionage campaign targeting 'high-value individuals', intelligence officials say.
Hackers working for the Chinese government have broken into telecommunications networks to track Uighur travellers in Central and Southeast Asia, two intelligence officials and two security consultants who investigated the attacks toldThe hacks are part of a wider cyber-espionage campaign targeting"high-value individuals" such as diplomats and foreign military personnel, the sources said.
As part of the campaign, different groups of Chinese hackers have compromised telecoms operators in countries including Turkey, Kazakhstan, India, Thailand and Malaysia, the four sources said. China has repeatedly denied involvement in cyberattacks or any mistreatment of the Uighur people, whose religious and cultural rights Beijing says are fully protected, and the Chinese Foreign Ministry said any hacking allegations need to be supported by evidence.
US cybersecurity company Volexity this week published a report detailing what it said were Chinese efforts to hack the phones and email accounts of Uighurs around the world. The ability to access telecoms user data has also become an increasingly valuable spying resource as the widespread use of encrypted messaging platforms has made it harder to intercept and monitor communications, said John Hultquist, director of intelligence analysis at US cybersecurity company FireEye.
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