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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] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s no indication that any of the apps were available through Google Play.

So it's just users installing untrusted apps to their phone?

scour infected phones for text messages, contacts, and all stored images

They also can't do that without the user explicitly giving the app permission to do those things, unless they found an exploit or something, but the article doesn't say that.

Also, why would you have images with passwords in them on your phone anyway?

People really should know better nowadays than to do any of this shit. Every step here is preventable by the user just thinking about what they're really doing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of cryptowallets let the user log in with a randomly generated combination of words. They often ask the user to write those down on paper. However, some people just screenshot that. This malware looks for those combinations specifically.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you mean the seed? i though that should be written on paper, store in a safe, and never on any electronic medium.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just like how people should use long unique passwords