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

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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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[-] n3cr0@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Let me express my huge distrust in McAfee.

Thanks for your attention.

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Huge distrust in both the company and the man himself even after leaving the company. But I must say the world got a little more dull and gray when he died.

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