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OCR Spyware Breaches Both Apple and Google App Stores To Steal Wallet Phrasesit.slashdot.org/story/25/02/05/1826259/first-ocr-spyware-breaches-both-apple-and-google-app-stores-to-steal-crypto-wallet-phrases
487 sats \ 7 comments \ @DarthCoin 6 Feb security
Use Obtainium or Zap Store folks... with sources directly from official github repos. Ditch the fucking Google and Apple stores.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satochip_ 6 Feb
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered malware lurking in both Google Play and the Apple App Store that uses optical character recognition to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from users' photo galleries.
... To steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases...
... from users'...
... photo galleries...
Who on earth is screenshotting their seed phrases? There are plenty of secure solutions for properly storing them: pen and paper (though I wouldn’t recommend it), metal plates, Seedkeeper, KeePass...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 6 Feb
Who on earth is screenshotting their seed phrases?
hahaha yeah same question I asked myself too. Apparently there are such dumb people on Earth.
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @teemupleb 6 Feb
Or don’t screenshot your seed phrase to the phone’s photo gallery
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @0393c53fc8 6 Feb
..then synchronize it with ࿕oogle Photos 🤡
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 6 Feb
LOL
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 6 Feb
The fucking system always wants to control us, but they will never succeed again.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 6 Feb
Dayum
the malware was embedded in several messaging and food delivery apps, with the infected Google Play apps accumulating over 242,000 downloads combined.
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