Facebook warns 1 million users whose logins were stolen by scam mobile apps
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#64G3K)
It found hundreds of malicious apps in the Play Store and App Store. | Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is warning Facebook users about hundreds of apps on Apple and Google's app stores that were specifically designed to steal login credentials to the social network app. The company says it's identified over 400 malicious apps disguised as games, photo editors, and other utilities and that it's notifying users who may have unknowingly self-compromised their accounts by downloading these apps and sharing their credentials." According to Bloomberg, a million users were potentially affected.
In its post, Meta says that the apps tricked people into downloading them with fake reviews and promises of useful functionality (both common tactics for other scam apps that are trying to take your money rather than your login info). But upon...