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26 FakeWallet Apps Found on Apple App Store Targeting Crypto Seed Phrases

ID: 4a93406b-3808-5ee3-8859-7f8cc8882429

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Feed Name: The Hacker News

Threat Score
78/100

Date Published: 2026-04-24

Date Updated: 2026-04-24

Author: [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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Security researchers identified the FakeWallet campaign—26 malicious iOS apps (primarily visible in Apple's China App Store) that impersonate legitimate cryptocurrency wallets to phish and hook recovery phrases/private keys via trojanized wallets, browser-based phishing and OCR—and reported Apple has removed many of them; separately, Cyble disclosed MiningDropper (aka BeatBanker), a sophisticated, modular Android delivery framework that stages AES/XOR-obfuscated payloads and dynamically loads mining, RAT, banking and information-stealing components targeting users across India, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

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