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Tibetan activists hit by a wave of cyberattacks
According to Kurt Baumgartner, a researcher at internet security and antivirus software company Kaspersky Lab, hackers attacked the Chinese language version of the Tibet government in exile’s website and infected it with malware. Spyware he says that then infects the computers of web users visiting the site, in order to gather information on them, without them knowing.
The site was soon restored, and China was soon singled out for being behind the cyber-attack. In an interview with British daily The Telegraph, Lobsang Sither accuses Beijing of running an espionage campaign to intercept communications between Tibetan activists and opponents of the Chinese regime.
And so the cyber security consultant, who is based in India, teamed up with other activists to launch an awareness campaign. It features a series of short sketches aimed at teaching Tibetans in exile how to protect themselves and their online activity from espionage programs.
Advice that largely focusses on Chinese app WeChat, an instant messaging service for smartphones that is becoming increasingly popular among members of the diaspora who use it to stay in contact with their friends and family back in Tibet. But using this online chat program makes their mobile phone vulnerable to Chinese intelligence agencies.
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