Found: 280 Android apps that use OCR to steal cryptocurrency credentials

CAT September 6, 2024 1 min read

Dan Goodin

Optical Character Recognition converts passwords shown in images to machine-readable text.

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Found: 280 Android apps that use OCR to steal cryptocurrency credentials

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