{"id":34923,"date":"2021-01-18T16:38:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34923"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:51:46","slug":"trezor-discovers-malicious-wallet-in-google-play-thousands-have-downloaded-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/trezor-discovers-malicious-wallet-in-google-play-thousands-have-downloaded-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Trezor Discovers Malicious Wallet in Google Play; Thousands Have Downloaded It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the Trezor hardware wallet warned Android users about a counterfeit app, Mobile Manager Wallet, circulating in Google Play.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\">Warning to all Trezor owners using Android devices!<\/p>\n<p>This app is malicious and has no relation to Trezor or SatoshiLabs. Please, don\u2019t install it.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that you should never share your seed with anyone until your Trezor device asks you to do it! <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/6C3iKfPDnR\\\">pic.twitter.com\/6C3iKfPDnR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Trezor (@Trezor) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Trezor\/status\/1351123945911705602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">January 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The company warned that the malicious app has no relation to Trezor or SatoshiLabs and advised against installing it.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, the fake app remained available on Google Play. It had been downloaded by more than a thousand people.<\/p>\n<p>Users on Twitter noted that the malware creators forged positive reviews, pushing the app\u2019s rating to 4.7. In the comments, some complained that the app froze after entering the seed phrase.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNever share your seed phrase until your Trezor device asks you to do so,\u201d the developers reminded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Trezor team also published a guide on using the hardware wallet for Android owners, urging it to be used as the sole official manual.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-conversation=\\\"none\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\">We have a manual on using Trezor with Android. Please, check it out and consider this approach as the only official solution: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/0aGOOi1TNj\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/0aGOOi1TNj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Trezor (@Trezor) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Trezor\/status\/1351123948239544322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">January 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in November 2020, a fake Uniswap app appeared in Google Play, stealing users&#8217; cryptocurrencies. One of them <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fake-uniswap-app-steals-20000-from-a-user\">lost $20,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the Trezor hardware wallet warned Android users about a fake app, Mobile Manager Wallet, circulating on Google Play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,738,961,115],"class_list":["post-34923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-google","tag-hardware-wallets","tag-trezor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34925,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34923\/revisions\/34925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}