A newly discovered Android vulnerability enables malicious applications to access content displayed by other apps, potentially compromising crypto wallet recovery phrases, two-factor authentication (2FA) codes and more.
According to a recent research Best crypto hardware wallets for 2025
Hardware wallets offer safe protection
The most obvious solution to the issue is to avoid displaying recovery phrases or any other particularly sensitive content on Android devices. Even better would be to avoid displaying recovery information on any internet-capable device.
A simple solution to achieve just that is to use a hardware wallet. A hardware wallet is a dedicated key management device that signs transactions externally to a computer or smartphone without ever exposing the private key or recovery phrase. As threat researcher Vladimir S put it in an X post on the subject:
“Simply don’t use your phone to secure your crypto. Use a hardware wallet!“
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