Derek Ross on Nostr: Malware has been found in both Google Play and Apple's App Store that uses optical ...
Malware has been found in both Google Play and Apple's App Store that uses optical character recognition to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from users' photo galleries.
That's...kind of cool and an interesting attack vector. Don't take screenshots or photos of your wallet's recovery phrases.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/438433Published at
2025-02-06 03:37:27Event JSON
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