More malicious cryptocurrency apps found on the Play Store
By Matthew Beedham It seems we might never win the battle against fake cryptocurrency apps on Google’s Play Store, as another four have been identified this week. The apps were masquerading on the Play Store as cryptocurrency wallets for NEO, Tether, and MetaMask. The dodgy apps were uncovered by security researcher Lukas Stefanko and had managed to amass a few hundred installs in total and have been available on the Play Store since mid-October. They have since been reported to Google and removed from the Play Store, it remains unclear if anyone was duped by any of these apps. What did they do? Despite all being wallet styles apps, they fall into two broad categories, phishing apps or fake wallets. The fake MetaMask app was the only phishing app of the four. After installing and opening the application, it would ask the user for their private key and wallet password. Once the app obtains this sensitive data, it would send it on to the scammers, si...