In only a few hours ago, and in these page, we talked about some of the applications are to be dangerous to the findings of the researchers in the iOS App Store. A study done by Kaspersky, was conducted in the Android Play Store, where it was discovered the APK file of the infected.
Part of the campaign, “SparkCat” there are also apps in the word, which i find to be listed on the bottom, but the concern is that, according to Google, they are downloaded to 242 thousand times. The Kaspersky report points out that these applications contain an SDK in order to be the worst for monitoring the phrases can be found in the TEXT message or e-mail for the recovery of the credentials associated with the wallets of the kriptomonedhave in order to steal the coins in the virtual, which are to be found in them.
The concern is high, as is, as explained in the paper, “this is the first instance of the familiar is a thief be found in the App Store”. SDK using one of the components of Java to extract text from images on your device in order to identify the phrases in the recovery that can be used to access the wallet without even knowing the password.
According to the researchers of Kaspersky, the applications found in the Google Play Store that contain the malware in question is as follows:
ComeCome-Chinese Food Delivery
ChatAI
WeTink
Each GPT
Of course, it is advisable to uninstall them as quickly as you can to release of the malware in the background that are intended to steal data from your phone.
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