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Found: 280 Android apps that use OCR to steal cryptocurrency credentials (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/22281366

Optical Character Recognition converts passwords shown in images to machine-readable text.

McAfee blog: https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-blogs/mcafee-labs/new-android-spyagent-campaign-steals-crypto-credentials-via-image-recognition/

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

security firm McAfee

Now there's an oxymoron. Let me know when they can write a virus scanner that works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So do you think this research is invalid, or are you just being snarky for the sake of it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Hard to say for sure. They may have legitimately found something, but my experience with McAfee products has been abysmal. The last time I dealt with it, someone had the full paid version of their virus scanner which was up to date but wasn't finding anything. I ran the free version of AVG and found over 200 items (mostly trojans and other malware). Their research may be valid, but I certainly wouldn't trust any of their software to find even widely-known issues.