Seed phrases serve as a security measure to prevent unauthorized access to users’ crypto wallets. but what will happen When the system guesses typing on your “smart” phone, it remembers and suggests words the next time you try to access your cryptocurrency wallet.
Andre, a 33-year-old IT specialist from Germany, recentlypostOn the subreddit r/CryptoCurrency After discovering his cell phone’s ability to predict all Seed phrases as soon as he typed the first word.
As a warning to other Redditors and crypto enthusiasts, Andre’s post highlights the ease with which hackers can use this feature to steal users’ funds. Just type the first word from the Bitcoin Improvement Protocol (BIP) list. 39
“This makes it easy to attack. just pick up the phone Go into the chat app and start typing any word from the BIP39 list and see what the phone will suggest.”
Andre, also known as u/Divinux on Reddit, shared his shock when he discovered that his phone could literally guess seed phrases of 12-24 words. Could it be a coincidence?”
As a person who specializes in technology A German crypto investor has tried his hand at predicting seed phrases accurately on his mobile phone. and after recognizing the potential consequences of this information if it goes in the wrong hands “I think I should tell people about it. I’m sure there are others who typed the Seed Phrase into their phones too.”
Andre’s experiment confirmed that Google’s GBoard was the least vulnerable. Because the software doesn’t predict every word in the correct order, however, Microsoft Swiftkey keyboards can predict seed phrases instantly, while Samsung keyboards can predict words if “Auto replace” and “Suggest text corrections” are turned on manually.
“Make yourself strong and prevent that from happening by clearing the cache for your word predictions.”
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