Mac espionage trojan targets Uighur activists

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said Friday that they have come across a new “advanced persistent threat (APT)” campaign targeting Uighur activists who use Mac OS X.

The backdoor, dubbed MaControl.b, is being used to spy on Uighur dissidents. On Wednesday, researchers said they discovered the “new wave” of APT attacks targeting the Turkik-speaking Muslim group, which mostly lives in the northwest Chinese province of Xinjiang.