{"id":216491,"date":"2025-06-24T06:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/malware-on-google-play-apple-app-store-stole-your-photos-and-crypto"},"modified":"2025-06-24T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:06:22","slug":"malware-on-google-play-apple-app-store-stole-your-photos-and-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/malware-on-google-play-apple-app-store-stole-your-photos-and-crypto","title":{"rendered":"Malware on Google Play, Apple App Store stole your photos\u2014and crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malware-on-google-play-apple-app-store-stole-your-photos-and-crypto.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new mobile crypto-stealing malware called SparkKitty was found in apps on Google Play and the Apple App Store, targeting Android and iOS devices.<\/p>\n<p>The malware is a possible evolution of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/mobile\/crypto-stealing-apps-found-in-apple-app-store-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SparkCat<\/a>, which Kaspersky discovered in January. SparkCat used optical character recognition (OCR) to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from images saved on infected devices.<\/p>\n<p>When installing crypto wallets, the installation process tells users to write down the wallet\u2019s recovery phrase and store it in a secure, offline location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new mobile crypto-stealing malware called SparkKitty was found in apps on Google Play and the Apple App Store, targeting Android and iOS devices. The malware is a possible evolution of SparkCat, which Kaspersky discovered in January. SparkCat used optical character recognition (OCR) to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from images saved on infected devices. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34,385,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-evolution","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}