Risky Bulletin Newsletter
February 05, 2025
Risky Bulletin: Crypto-stealer makes it on the iOS App Store
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Kaspersky researchers have discovered a new crypto-stealer that has found its way into both the iOS and Android app stores.
Named SparkCat, the trojan takes photos from the phone's gallery and scans them with an OCR module to extract text that may appear in any of the images.
The malware looks for text that resembles mnemonic phrases in different languages, which may indicate the photo might be a screenshot of a cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrase.