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Facebook shuts down hackers who infected iOS and Android devices

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Facebook said it has disrupted a hacking operation that used the social media platform to spread iOS and Android malware that spied on Uyghur people from the Xinjiang region of China. Malware for both mobile OSes had advanced capabilities that could steal just about anything stored on an infected device. The […]

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Twitter says it won’t take down Chinese tweet praising Uygur policy

Enlarge / A woman is wearing a mask with the Uyghurs flag on it, during the demonstration ‘Freedom for Uyghurs’ in The Hague, Netherlands on August 20th, 2020. (credit: Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Twitter has told Ars Technica that a Chinese government tweet praising China’s treatment of its Uygur ethnic minority does not […]