{"id":862698,"date":"2024-10-03T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T04:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=862698"},"modified":"2024-10-03T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T04:59:41","slug":"android-users-delete-this-dangerous-crypto-app-from-your-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/03\/android-users-delete-this-dangerous-crypto-app-from-your-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Android users, delete this \u2018dangerous\u2019 crypto app from your phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cybersecurity company has spotted a malicious app on Google Play store that is designed to steal cryptocurrency. What makes this app so dangerous is that it has evaded detection for over 5 months before being removed from the store. It was first uploaded to Google Play in March 2024.<br \/>\nAccording to a report by Check Point Research, a crypto drainer app named WalletConnect \u2013 Airdrop Wallet has targeted Android mobile device users exclusively and used modern evasion techniques by posting as a legitimate tool for Web3 apps to avoid detection. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cybersecurity company has spotted a malicious app on Google Play store that is designed to steal cryptocurrency. What makes this app so dangerous is that it has evaded detection for over 5 months before being removed from the store. It was first uploaded to Google Play in March 2024. According to a report by Check Point Research, a crypto drainer app named WalletConnect \u2013 Airdrop Wallet has targeted Android mobile device users exclusively and used modern evasion techniques by posting as a legitimate tool for Web3 apps to avoid detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}