Google Play Removes 25 Apps Caught Stealing Facebook Credentials From Users
+Cyber-security firm, Evina notes that these 25 apps collectively had over 25 lakh downloads.Google is said to have removed 25 apps from its Google Play store that were caught stealing Facebook credentials.
According to the French cyber-security firm, Evina, these malicious apps collectively had over 25 lakh downloads.
How did the apps steal Facebook credentials?
According to Evina, once the user launched the contentious app on their smartphone, the malicious app detected what app a user recently opened and had in the phone's foreground.
"If it is a Facebook application, the malware will launch a browser that loads Facebook at the same time. The browser is displayed in the foreground which makes you think that the application launched it,"
the cyber-security firm explains.
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