For the second time in a month, a fake version of a real app rips off App Store users،
Wallet Draining Apps are malicious apps designed to trick users into entering their passphrases or taking other actions that will allow the attacker to steal all digital assets belonging to these victims. These assets, which include NFTs and cryptocurrencies, are mined from a cryptocurrency wallet. By
Computers ringingFor the second time in about a month, a tweet from a company about to list a Bitcoin wallet in the App Store has warned iPhone and iPad users about a fake app with a similar name.
In the most recent situation, a company offering a crypto wallet called Leather sent an urgent warning tweet about the fake Leather Wallet app in the App Store. The tweet read: “The Leather Wallet app currently in the iOS store is FAKE. Don't download it and definitely don't enter your seed phrase. We promise we'll let you know once our mobile app is actually ready !Leather should only be downloaded directly from http://leather.io.”
If this sounds vaguely familiar, almost three weeks ago we told you about a crypto wallet called Rabby Wallet that was also awaiting listing on the App Store and a fake version of the app appeared on the App Store. From one account, more than $100,000 was stolen by the fake app before it was kicked off the App Store.
The fake leather wallet is listed in the App Store
Several crypto investors tweeted about being scammed by the fake Leather app. One tweet, written by follower “X” “@CryptoVonDoom,” wrote: “I just lost my [Bitcoin] ordinals.
You may have downloaded the wrong version of Leather Wallet from the App Store. Amazing. All my decent stuff went here.” Another “X” user, @wherermyprofits, pointed out that he had also fallen victim to the same fraud the day before. “I feel you bro. I was exhausted yesterday. I lost everything I had on ETH. Years of grinding, over…”
At least two investors were scammed by the fake LEather Wallet app
Disturbingly, the fake Leather Wallet app had a 4.9 rating in the App Store and appears to have only recently been removed from the App Store. Make sure that Leather Wallet and Hiro Bitcoin are not installed on your iPhone or iPad if you downloaded it from the App Store. If you have it on any of your Apple devices, uninstall it immediately.
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