octalfudge@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoAndroid malware steals user credentials using optical character recognitionarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down16
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minus-squareChozo@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·11 months agoIf the password is being manually typed by the user, you could still theoretically use OCR against the keyboard inputs updating as the user taps each key, since most keyboards will highlight the selected key in some way.
minus-squareokbuddyretard@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·11 months ago@Chozo That’s exactly why we should pick our mobile keyboards wisely lmao. Also regarding that, there are alot of open-source keyboards on F-Droid.
If the password is being manually typed by the user, you could still theoretically use OCR against the keyboard inputs updating as the user taps each key, since most keyboards will highlight the selected key in some way.
@Chozo That’s exactly why we should pick our mobile keyboards wisely lmao. Also regarding that, there are alot of open-source keyboards on F-Droid.