Fake Bitcoin Wallet Apps Found on Google Play Store

According to Lookout blog post, all three fake wallet apps tricked users into sending bitcoin payments to attacker-specified bitcoin addresses. The researchers dubbed these type of apps as “PickBitPocket.” An app infected with PickBitPocket works in such a way that it poses as an authentic Bitcoin wallet but instead are set up to trick victims into providing the attacker’s bitcoin address instead of the seller’s.

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