From The Hacker News – Triada Malware Preloaded on Counterfeit Android Phones Infects 2,600+ Devices

From The Hacker News – Triada Malware Preloaded on Counterfeit Android Phones Infects 2,600+ Devices

Counterfeit versions of popular smartphone models that are sold at reduced prices have been found to be preloaded with a modified version of an Android malware called Triada. "More than 2,600 users in different countries have encountered the new version of Triada, the majority in Russia," Kaspersky said in a report. The infections were recorded between March 13 and 27, 2025.  Triada is the
From The Hacker News – SparkCat Malware Uses OCR to Extract Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrases from Images

From The Hacker News – SparkCat Malware Uses OCR to Extract Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrases from Images

A new malware campaign dubbed SparkCat has leveraged a suit of bogus apps on both Apple's and Google's respective app stores to steal victims' mnemonic phrases associated with cryptocurrency wallets.  The attacks leverage an optical character recognition (OCR) model to exfiltrate select images containing wallet recovery phrases from photo libraries to a command-and-control (C2) server,