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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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[-] qaz@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just like how people should use long unique passwords

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