Fake wallet app hits Google Play to abduct from Ethereum holders

Security advisers are aural the anxiety on affected Android apps begin on Google Play that will abduct Ethereum cryptocurrency.

Unless you accept been active beneath a bedrock for the accomplished few months, you apperceive that a cardinal of cryptocurrencies accept exploded afresh in agreement of their value. One of them is Ethereum, and as you ability expect, there are bodies who appetite to abduct this suddenly valuable ability from legitimate holders.

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This week, it appears that alien cybercriminals accept succeeded in uploading a affected MyEtherWallet Android app to the Google Play Store. The affected fabricated its aboriginal actualization aftermost week, and malware researcher Lukas Stefanko has acquaint an active about this awful app on his Twitter account (via TheNextWeb). He credibility out that there is no “official” MyEtherWallet app accessible on the Play Store, and that this affected adaptation requires Ethereum users to blazon in their clandestine key or catchword phrase.

• A fake MyEtherWallet app has been spotted in the Google Play Store.
• The app makes users type in their clandestine key afterwards the app is installed.
• There’s no chat yet on if Google will try to abolish this app, and agnate ones, from the Play Store.