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Facebook warns about 400 password-stealing apps! Camera, beauty, VPN apps on the list
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Facebook warns about 400 password-stealing apps! Camera, beauty, VPN apps on the list

[ad_1] Facebook users have been warned against 400 malware apps available on Play Store and App Store. Check the full list here. Meta has warned around one million Facebook users about a bunch of 400 malicious apps that are even available on Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store. These apps are designed to steal passwords and personal account details of Facebook accounts under false guises. The malicious apps worked by masquerading themselves as photo editors, mobile games, VPN services, business apps or health trackers, Facebook said in a report.Most of these 400 dangerous apps include Photo Editor tools, which comprise around 42.6 percent of the total malicious apps. Apart from this, 15.4 percent are Business Utility apps, 14.1 percent are Phone Utility apps, 11.7 percent are ga...
Alert! Million Facebook users exposed to over 400 malicious apps on Google Play, App Store
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Alert! Million Facebook users exposed to over 400 malicious apps on Google Play, App Store

[ad_1] Meta warned a million Facebook users Friday that they have been "exposed" to seemingly innocuous smartphone applications designed to steal passwords to the social network. So far this year, Meta has identified more than 400 "malicious" apps tailored for smartphones powered by Apple or Android software and available at the Apple App Store and Google Pay Store, director of threat disruption David Agranovich said during a briefing. "These apps were listed on the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store and disguised as photo editors, games, VPN services, business apps and other utilities to trick people into downloading them," Meta said in a blog post. The apps often ask people to login with their Facebook account information to use promised features, stealing usernames and p...