[HN Gopher] OCR Crypto Stealers in Google Play and App Store
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       OCR Crypto Stealers in Google Play and App Store
        
       Author : shifty1
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-02-05 20:57 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (securelist.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (securelist.com)
        
       | fortran77 wrote:
       | It's written in Rust:
       | 
       | > The malware, which we dubbed "SparkCat", used an unidentified
       | protocol implemented in Rust, a language untypical of mobile
       | apps, to communicate with the C2.
       | 
       | So all the Hacker News folks will probably think it's great.
        
       | mrighele wrote:
       | > We found Android and iOS apps, some available in Google Play
       | and the App Store, which were embedded with a malicious
       | SDK/framework for stealing recovery phrases for crypto wallets.
       | 
       | Wasn't the walled garden model supposed to protect from this ?
        
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