New SparkCat Variant in iOS, Android Apps Steals Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrase Images
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Kaspersky researchers discovered updated SparkCat mobile malware in apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store that conceal themselves in legitimate apps and use OCR to scan photo libraries for cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases, exfiltrating images to attacker servers; the Android variant adds obfuscation and Asian-language keyword scanning while the iOS variant searches for English mnemonics, increasing potential reach.
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