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Facebook Users Beware: These Malicious Apps Can Steal Your Login Credentials; What Should You Do? KEY POINTS These apps provide legitimate services to Facebook users They also steal Facebook users passwords  Security researchers and malware analysts at Dr. Web have discovered nine apps, with a collective download of over 5.8 million, that have been stealing Facebook passwords. While Google has already removed them and banned the developers, some users who have downloaded these apps may have be...

Once in the app, users were offered the opportunity to unlock full functionality and disable in-app adverts by logging in with their Facebook accounts. If they chose to do so, then they were presented with a genuine Facebook login form which also loaded JavaScript received from the malwares command and control (C&C) server. "After that, this JavaScript... passed stolen login and password to the trojan applications, which then transferred the data to the attackers C&C server," Doctor Web wrote. ...

Nine apps stealing Facebook login credentials pulled from Google Play SHARE Google LLC has removed nine Android apps from the Play store, including one with millions of users, after they were discovered to be stealing users’ Facebook Inc. login credentials. Discovered and detailed July 1 by malware analysts at Dr. Web, the apps, described as “stealer Trojans,” were spread as harmless software and were installed nearly 6 million times. Unlike some previous cases ...

These Nine Android Apps May Have Stolen Your Facebook Login Information Share Photo: Lionel Bonaventure, Getty Images Google has kicked nine Android apps with more than 5.8 million combined downloads off its Play Store after researchers discovered they contained malicious code used to steal users’ Facebook login credentials, according to the Russian anti-virus software firm Dr. Web. As reported by Ars Technica, these trojan apps were designed to look and function like legitimate services for ...