Kaspersky researchers found apps in Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store that use OCR to steal crypto wallet recovery phrases from images on users' devices
Android and iOS apps on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store contain a malicious software development kit (SDK) …
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Discussion
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@Gte@mastodon.social
Guy English
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This is the kind of thing that makes tech so annoying these days. What's a platform to do? At the scale of adoption of these devices (both Apple and Android) there are countless people who'd not think twice about agreeing to photo access without thinking for a moment of the scr…
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@moo9000
Mikko Ohtamaa
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How seed phrase image stealers work. TL; DR Don't save your seed phrase as an image on an online drive. Kim Yong AI is coming for your crypto. https://securelist.com/... [image]
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Fabio Assolini
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Take my money: OCR crypto stealers in Google Play and App Store https://securelist.com/...
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