{"id":660344,"date":"2025-04-03T07:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hackers-are-selling-counterfeit-phones-with-crypto-stealing-malware\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:24:17","slug":"hackers-are-selling-counterfeit-phones-with-crypto-stealing-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hackers-are-selling-counterfeit-phones-with-crypto-stealing-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers are selling counterfeit phones with crypto-stealing malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDQvMDE5NWY5ZDUtYjU4MS03MWY0LWFiZjQtYjI1ODdhOThlOTcz.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Kaspersky researchers say they have found 2,600 confirmed infections through this scam in different countries, with the majority of users in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><p>Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says it has uncovered thousands of counterfeit Android smartphones sold online with preinstalled malware designed to steal crypto and other sensitive data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Android devices are sold at reduced prices, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.ru\/about\/press-releases\/novaya-versiya-triada-kradyot-kriptovalyutu-akkaunty-v-messendzherah-i-podmenyaet-nomera-telefonov-vo-vremya-zvonkov\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" title=\"null\">said<\/a> in an April 1 statement, but are riddled with a version of the Triada Trojan that infects every process and gives the attackers \u201calmost unlimited control\u201d over the device.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Kalinin, a cybersecurity expert at Kaspersky Labs, said that once the trojan grants the attackers access to devices, they can steal crypto by replacing wallet addresses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says it has uncovered thousands of counterfeit Android smartphones sold online with preinstalled malware designed to steal crypto and other sensitive data.\u00a0 The Android devices are sold at reduced prices,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-04\/0195f9d5-b581-71f4-abf4-b2587a98e973","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74894,74863,75857,74879,117,70944,71101],"class_list":["post-660344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-blockchain","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-malware","tag-wallet","tag-business","tag-hackers","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}