For the second time in three weeks, a fake crypto wallet app in the App Store ripped off users.
Wallet Draining apps are malicious apps designed to trick users into typing in their secret passphrases or taking other actions that will allow the attacker to steal all of the digital assets belonging to these victims. These assets, which include NFTs and cryptocurrency, are swiped from a cryptocurrency wallet. Per Bleeping Computers, for the second time in about a month, a tweet from a company about to list a Bitcoin wallet in the App Store 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 out an urgent tweet warning about the fake Leather Wallet app in the App Store. The tweet said, «The Leather Wallet app currently in the iOS store is FAKE.