Many Android users discover that their phones have spyware installed after traveling to China

Early July 3, a series of major publications around the world including The Guardian, Motherboard, New York Times, and many other tech news sites simultaneously published news about secret border management agencies installing Put spyware on the phones of travelers to and from Xinjiang autonomous regions without their consent

Accordingly, the Chinese border management stations in the area adjacent to Xinjiang Autonomous Region secretly installed spyware software into Android phones of tourists to this country. Xinjiang is known to be the area where Chinese authorities have stepped up close scrutiny over the last few years to control to the maximum the 'terrorist' activity of Muslim ethnic minority groups. in this area.

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The border management agency secretly installs spyware onto travelers' phones

According to the report, border management stations in the above area have asked tourists to hand over personal items, including phones and passwords to controllers, before entering the immigration procedures as well as exit from Xinjiang area. The controllers will then bring the visitors 'voice phones to the' special inspection area 'to' check all the content on the phone to ensure there is no illegal information available. store in there '.

Specifically for iPhones and iOS devices, the test process is said to include plugging devices into a computer system that scans the content stored on the phone. For Android phones, things become even more worrisome when the controllers secretly install spyware, which is responsible for scanning phones and collecting data.

According to the report, this spy software has a name named BXAQ or Internet connection. When successfully installed in an Android phone, it will proceed to collect phone book information, text messages, call history, calendar entries, system apps and usernames used in one specific application number, then download all the data collected on a server. This app scans your phone to search over 73,000 different files. Some of them contain extreme content, such as ISIS publications, excerpts of the Quran and even songs from a Japanese band.

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Spyware installed on Android device

It looks like this application will be deleted after the checkout process ends. However, border controllers seem to have forgotten to do so in some cases, leading to situations where many tourists discover strange applications in their devices, and the breakdown.

An expert from major technology newspapers actively contacted the owners of the above-mentioned spyware software to borrow and proceed to analyze how the software works, with the How specific.

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Location of Xinjiang (red area)

Xinjiang is a large and resource-rich autonomous region in western China, which is an ancient land of more than 8 million Uighurs - a Muslim Muslim nation and has many dissenting views with the government. Beijing for decades. The increasingly fierce conflict between the Chinese government and a few ethnic minorities in the past few years has caused the region to suffer from extremely tough management measures such as the deployment of identity systems. Dense face, applications that facilitate monitoring and curfew are almost continuous.