Googles Play Store is a home for millions of apps that make our phones helpful in numerous methods. And although Google is doing its best to make certain there arent any damaging apps on its app market, some inevitably slip through.
Thankfully, Google isnt the only company that watches for naughty apps. Cybersecurity company Evina is also searching and checking apps for any malware that may be hiding inside and recently published a list of 25 apps that were stealing users Facebook credentials. The apps have considering that been gotten rid of from Googles Play Store, however if you happen to have any on your gadget, its time to erase them.
The list (consisted of listed below) includes apps with wildly different functionality: from card games to submit supervisors to step counters and even a flashlight app. Combined, theyve acquired over 2 million downloads and they all included the same harmful code.
The list of unsafe apps you must delete immediately
Clearly, tech-savvy users will likely spot the switcheroo and wont succumb to that trick, but kids or elderly utilizing an Android phone for the very first time will quickly go along and have their Facebook account jeopardized.
Thats why its important to always make sure the apps youre setting up are legitimate, which can generally be done by checking out the comments to see if there are any warnings about them. That was the case for the majority of the apps from the list above, but still, the overall rating of the apps was high enough for people to consider downloading them.
The way the malware works is by awaiting the user to launch an app thats made by Facebook. It quickly opens a new web browser tab with a fake Facebook login page and shows it on top of the app that was initially launched. Users would then put in their Facebook login details and the malware would copy them and send them to its designated server.
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