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Google Play is hosting a disturbing amount of cryptocurrency malware

Apr20
by on April 20, 2018 at 9:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Google, Hard Fork


Google is suffering from an epidemic of malicious cryptocurrency apps on the Play Store – and it seems the internet giant is struggling to curb the influx. Security researcher Lukas Stafanko has come across another rogue copycat of popular cryptocurrency app MyEtherWallet designed to steal your private keys and surreptitiously drain your funds. But here is the worst part: the malicious app purportedly remained available to download for four days before the Big G purged it from its software distribution platform, according to the researcher. Fortunately, it appears that nobody downloaded the app during the four-day window it remained in…

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a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Google Play is hosting a disturbing amount of cryptocurrency malware

Apr20
by on April 20, 2018 at 9:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Google, Hard Fork


Google is suffering from an epidemic of malicious cryptocurrency apps on the Play Store – and it seems the internet giant is struggling to curb the influx. Security researcher Lukas Stafanko has come across another rogue copycat of popular cryptocurrency app MyEtherWallet designed to steal your private keys and surreptitiously drain your funds. But here is the worst part: the malicious app purportedly remained available to download for four days before the Big G purged it from its software distribution platform, according to the researcher. Fortunately, it appears that nobody downloaded the app during the four-day window it remained in…

This story continues at The Next Web

Or just read more coverage about: Google Play,Google

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