{"id":3381,"date":"2025-02-06T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/sparkcat-malware-uses-ocr-to-extract-crypto-wallet-recovery-phrases-from-images\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:12:40","slug":"sparkcat-malware-uses-ocr-to-extract-crypto-wallet-recovery-phrases-from-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/sparkcat-malware-uses-ocr-to-extract-crypto-wallet-recovery-phrases-from-images\/","title":{"rendered":"SparkCat Malware Uses OCR to Extract Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrases from Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA new malware campaign dubbed SparkCat has leveraged a suit of bogus apps on both Apple&#8217;s and Google&#8217;s respective app stores to steal victims&#8217; mnemonic phrases associated with cryptocurrency wallets.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe 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,\u00a0A new malware campaign dubbed SparkCat has leveraged a suit of bogus apps on both Apple&#8217;s and Google&#8217;s respective app stores to steal victims&#8217; mnemonic phrases associated with cryptocurrency wallets.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe 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,\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA new malware campaign dubbed SparkCat has leveraged a suit of bogus apps on both Apple&#8217;s and Google&#8217;s respective app stores to steal victims&#8217; mnemonic phrases associated with cryptocurrency wallets.\u00a0 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,\u00a0A&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/sparkcat-malware-uses-ocr-to-extract-crypto-wallet-recovery-phrases-from-images\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SparkCat Malware Uses OCR to Extract Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrases from Images<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}