Malware Steals Photos To Find Crypto Seed Phrases
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has warned of a newly discovered malware known as SparkKitty, which steals photos from infected devices in the hopes of finding crypto seed phrases.
Kaspersky analysts Sergey Puzan and Dmitry Kalinin said in a report on Monday that SparkKitty is targeting both iOS and Android devices by infiltrating some of the apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Once a device is infected, the malicious software indiscriminately steals all images in the photo gallery.
“Although we suspect the attackers’ main goal is to find screenshots of crypto wallet seed phrases, other sensitive data could also be present in the stolen images.”
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