{"id":48780,"date":"2022-10-07T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9e7ed75d-b946-4f15-86cb-fcff8f6bb16a"},"modified":"2022-10-07T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:04:00","slug":"facebook-users-warned-you-may-have-downloaded-these-password-stealing-android-and-ios-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/facebook-users-warned-you-may-have-downloaded-these-password-stealing-android-and-ios-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook users warned: You may have downloaded these password-stealing Android and iOS apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"c-shortcodeImage u-clearfix c-shortcodeImage-large\">\n<div class=\"c-shortcodeImage_imageContainer\">\n<div class=\"c-shortcodeImage_image\"><picture class=\"c-cmsImage c-cmsImage_loaded\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" 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src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/fa097aded963910a28c5e8a69f31bbcadb0fc152\/2022\/10\/07\/55cb9d57-704c-4b54-a26e-deb5cb54802f\/a-worried-woman-looking-at-her-smartphone.jpg?auto=webp&amp;width=1200\" alt=\"a-worried-woman-looking-at-her-smartphone\" height=\"800.377358490566\" width=\"1200\" fetchpriority=\"low\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<p> <!----><\/div>\n<p> <!----><figcaption> <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Image: Getty\/Enes Evren<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tech giant Meta said it has notified a million Facebook users that their usernames and passwords might have been stolen after downloading one of over 400 malicious Android and iOS smartphone apps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The apps were discovered in the Google Play Store and Apple&#8217;s App Store over the course of the last year, posing as popular types of software. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2022\/10\/protecting-people-from-malicious-account-compromise-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">According to Meta<\/a>, four in 10 of the apps posed as photo editors, while others posed as games, VPNs, health trackers, business applications, flashlight enhancers and other services to trick users into downloading them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-shortcodeImage u-clearfix c-shortcodeImage-large c-shortcodeImage-hasCaption\">\n<div class=\"c-shortcodeImage_imageContainer\">\n<div class=\"c-shortcodeImage_image\"><picture class=\"c-cmsImage\"><!----> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/facebook-users-warned-you-may-have-downloaded-these-password-stealing-android-and-ios-apps\/\" alt=\"meta-catagories-of-malicious-apps\" height=\"1044.943820224719\" width=\"1200\" fetchpriority=\"low\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<p> <!----><\/div>\n<p> <!----><figcaption>\n<div class=\"c-shortcodeImage_caption g-inner-spacing-right-small g-color-black\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"c-ShortcodeContent\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>A chart showing the categories of malicious apps used to lure victims into downloading them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Image: Meta<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Users who downloaded the malicious apps were asked to log in with their Facebook account before they could use the features they were promised \u2013 and if the user entered their username and password, it handed their credentials to the attackers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many of the apps were useless and did not provide the functions they advertised \u2013 because once the user provided their credentials, the attackers had already got what they wanted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/a-security-researcher-told-me-my-passwords-and-more-how-15-years-of-digital-footprints-left-me-exposed\/\" rel=\"follow\">A security researcher easily found my passwords and more: How my digital footprints left me surprisingly over-exposed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With stolen login information, attackers can gain access to a person&#8217;s account, providing them with the ability to access private information, or send malicious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/what-is-phishing-how-to-protect-yourself-from-scam-emails-and-more\/\" rel=\"follow\">phishing messages<\/a> to the victim&#8217;s contacts. And if the victim also uses their Facebook account to log in to other applications and services, the attackers will also be able to access those \u2013 and potentially gain access to additional sensitive data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the downloads have been developed outside the Meta ecosystem, the tech firm can&#8217;t be certain how many people have installed the malicious apps \u2013 but the company has notified around a million users that they may have been put at risk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this case, we are being kind of over broad, over cautious and notifying anyone we think may have been exposed to applications like this, which is about a million people,&#8221; David Arganovich, global director of threat disruption at Meta, told ZDNET.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The notifications have two aims \u2013 one is to inform people they&#8217;ve downloaded a malicious app and tell them what steps they should take to secure their account if they&#8217;ve entered their login details. The second is to warn people who&#8217;ve potentially downloaded the apps and are yet to enter their account details that they shouldn&#8217;t do this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the attackers have access to a Facebook account, they also have the freedom to change the password and lock the victim out \u2013 and Meta says that when this has happened, it&#8217;s worked to restore access to the user.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re also taking steps in the course of our investigation to remediate accounts where we can that do appear to have been compromised and restore access for users who might have actually lost access to their account,&#8221; said Arganovich.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meta is also providing advice to users on how to spot a malicious app. The suggested tell-tale signs include apps asking for social media credentials \u2013 especially if there&#8217;s no need for the app to need this data. Another sign is the developer advertising features that the app doesn&#8217;t have. A string of poor reviews with complaints that the app doesn&#8217;t work as advertised could be a key sign that something isn&#8217;t right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d encourage people to look at the app store reviews particularly the negative reviews, because you may see people explicitly calling out the fact that the app was a scam, that their account may have been hacked, or that it was otherwise misleading, and it&#8217;s functionality or purpose,&#8221; Agranovich said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If users suspect they&#8217;ve downloaded a malicious app that has provided cyber criminals with their login information, it&#8217;s recommended that they create a new, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/want-a-strong-password-youre-probably-still-doing-it-the-wrong-way\/\" rel=\"follow\">strong password<\/a> \u2013 one that isn&#8217;t used across multiple websites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/how-to-keep-your-bank-details-and-finances-more-secure-online\/\" rel=\"follow\">How to keep your bank details and finances more secure online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also recommended that users apply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/better-than-the-best-password-how-to-use-2fa-to-improve-your-security\/\" rel=\"follow\">multi-factor authentication<\/a>&nbsp;to their Facebook account to provide an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/why-you-really-need-multi-factor-authentication-these-ransomware-hackers-gave-up-when-they-saw-it\/\" rel=\"follow\">extra barrier to unauthorized logins<\/a>. Users should also turn on login alerts for notifications that someone could be trying to access their account.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has detailed a list of the malicious apps for Android and iOS in their security warning about accounts being compromised. The company also reported the findings to Google and Apple.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of the apps identified in the report are no longer available on Google Play. Users are also protected by Google Play Protect, which blocks these apps on Android,&#8221; a Google spokesperson told ZDNET. The apps have also been removed from the Apple App Store.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>MORE ON CYBERSECURITY<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/facebook-users-warned-you-may-have-downloaded-these-password-stealing-android-and-ios-apps\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of malicious apps available in Google Play and Apple App Store tricked users into giving away their passwords. 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