{"id":1813,"date":"2025-02-07T07:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T07:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/sparkcat-malware-uses-ocr-to-extract-html\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T07:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T07:03:31","slug":"sparkcat-malware-uses-ocr-to-extract-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/sparkcat-malware-uses-ocr-to-extract-html\/","title":{"rendered":"SparkCat Malware Uses OCR to Extract Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrases from Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    SparkCat Malware Uses OCR to Extract Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrases from Images<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A 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,<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/02\/sparkcat-malware-uses-ocr-to-extract.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}