In an article that was linked through today’s Kim Komando newsletter, we are learning that there are 18 Android apps and 10 IOS apps. These apps have an SDK which is capable of stealing the seed phraises from your device. According to the article, you should put your seed phraise elsewhere, and not an image that is accessible by phone. Of course, they use control servers known as command and control servers to get all of this done. To see all of the details on this, please read the Bleeping Computer article Crypto-stealing apps found in Apple App Store for the first time which goes in to details. If my math is correct, this makes Android now 27 and IOS; 10. Kasperski helped with this investigation.
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