you are more than welcome to check on our community :) Please take into account that 90% of topics there are in Russian, about 7-8% in Uyghur, and only a few percent in English. Though anyway there will always be people in our community glad to welcome you in either language.

This is fascinating (although depressing) information. Occasionally, like in the article linked above, you see big media corporations just mention that China is spying both on other states and on individual dissidents. But it’s only by bypassing the media and listening to what the effective people themselves have to say (like at your community) can you see what kind of techniques are actually being used. I didn’t realize that elaborate “phishing” emails were being used to lure people into revealing their political persuasions to the government; might have to stop by your community and take a look. Thanks for the input.

These crooks started sending out emails with keyloggers in April last year. They all followed the same pattern: the text was tailored to be in Uyghur or in English with the text regarding the Uyghur American Association or the World Uyghur Congress, “From:” email addresses were real ones, however, according to the tracing data in the email headers, they were faked, and those emails contained an attachment masked to be a legitimate one according to the text in the email, whereas the attachment according to virustotal.com contained trojans/keyloggers.

I understand that there was a specific and directed email harvesting on a specific list of Tibetan and Uyghur websites. Our website (not driven by politics, it’s an online Uyghur youth community) also managed to get into such a list, not really something to be proud of. We had some guesses on that discussion regarding the reasons of this espionage campaign. It’s interesting to see that some of the guesses have been confirmed by this report produced by Canadians.

Regards,
Rus.