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Microsoft has published the details of an Android-native security vulnerability that exposed 30 million crypto wallet credentials to malicious actors.
The company’s Defender Security Research Team first identified the issue in April 2025 during a routine security research.
Microsoft details Android flaw affecting crypto wallets
The attack begins with the user installing malicious apps designed to bypass the Android sandbox. The latter is a security system that isolates phone apps, preventing them from “seeing” each other’s data. The app then sends a message to a vulnerable Software Development Kit (SDK), specifically version 4.5.4. An SDK is a fundamental component of every phone application, with most applications requiring several SDKs to run properly.
This corrupts all other apps that receive the message, tricking them into givi
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