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

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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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[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 months ago

I would love to actually have the list instead of just a report that there is one

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Thanks!

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