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Google's official Play Store has been caught hosting malicious apps that targeted Android users with an interest in cryptocurrencies, researchers reported on Thursday.
In all, researchers with security provider ESET recently discovered two fraudulent digital wallets. The first, called Coin Wallet, let users create wallets for a host of different cryptocurrencies. While Coin Wallet purported to generate a unique wallet address for users to deposit coins, the app in fact used a developer-owned wallet for each supported currency, with a total of 13 wallets. Each Coin Wallet user was assigned the same wallet address for a specific currency.
A second fraudulent Android wallet used the name "Trezor Mobile Wallet" in an attempt to impersonate the widely used hardware cryptocurrency wallet Trezor. The app then instructed users to enter login data and sent it to a server controlled by the developers. Multiple security layers built into real Trezor wallets prevented any credentials entered from accessing legitimate accounts. Still, any email addresses or other personal data could potentially be used in phishing attacks.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by darkfeline on Saturday May 25 2019, @08:53AM
To understand Google, you have to understand that Google has very few employees, given the scope of their services. Simply offering customer support for most of the Web's users (e.g., most people who browse the Web use at least one of Google's services) would require magnitudes more people than Google employs currently.
Example: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-support-staff-limits-13916.html [seroundtable.com] Google says Google has just shy of 100k employees at the moment, you can do some basic math across all of Google's services (Search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, Drive, etc.)
This is why almost everything Google does is automated. "Shell scripts", as you say, although Google calls it "AI", which is somewhat more advanced than Bash. This is also why Google has bad support, or rather nonexistent support. No one can afford to provide support on Google's scale; customer support has inverse economy of scale (cost grows faster than linearly in the long run, since you need extra managers/overhead to manage customer support people, and there's a minimum bar of quality you need to hit, or you're better off not having the customer service in the first place, so you can't keep cutting costs/outsourcing forever).
The IRS actually has very good support, so it's not a fair comparison. The IRS literally depends on taxpayers to pay money; it's in their best interest to make it easy for taxpayers to pay taxes (when TurboTax isn't sabotaging them anyway). It's oft said that if you're going to be in debt, the IRS are the best creditors you can have.
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