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Facebook caught Chinese hackers utilizing faux personas to focus on Uyghurs overseas

Facebook on Wednesday presented new movements to disrupt a group of China-based hackers leveraging the platform to compromise goals inside the Uyghur community. The team, known to protection researchers as “Earth Empusa,” “Evil Eye” or “Poison Carp” centered spherical …
Facebook on Wednesday announced new actions to disrupt a network of China-based hackers leveraging the platform to compromise targets in the Uyghur community. The group, known to security researchers as “Earth Empusa,” “Evil Eye” or “Poison Carp” targeted around …

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