“Kaspersky Laboratory” found the first virus for data theft with an iPhone photo

The virus was found in the online stores of the App Store and Google Play in 20 fake Messengers, isolate, services, services to deliver food and access to crypto-rissia. The programs that were built in Freimvork were built more than 242 thousand times from Google Markete, said the representative of the Kaspersky Laboratory.

His experts called the trojan sparkcat (“flickering cat”). After loading and starting on the smartphone, the virus requests access to see the photo and use the optical recognition of characters (OCR) analyzes the text in the images in the gallery. If keywords are detected, Styler sends an image to the attackers.

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The main task of the virus is to find phrases to restore access to cryptocurrencies to obtain the victim’s digital assets, said Kaspersky Laboratories. In addition, trojan can steal the messages of messages or passwords if they are contained in screenshots.

The experts surveyed by Vedomosti said that this is the first known case of integration of the virus to steal data in the App Store, previously, only the owners of the Android devices met similar malware.

In mid -January, the Russian technology developer to combat CyberCintes Facct reported that in the last two months, scammers have stolen more than 40 million rubles of Russians using the legal application of NFCGate. It is able to intercept and transfer bank cards through NFC modules on smartphones.