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9 Super Popular Play Store Apps Have Been Stealing Users’ Facebook Passwords

wazup July 5, 2021 Comments Closed 71 views

Image sourced from Getty Images. Google has removed nine Android apps from its Play Store that have been downloaded more than 5.8 million times. These nine apps were found by researchers to be using an exploit to steal the Facebook login credentials of users. The infected apps in question provided fully functioning services for photo editing and framing, exercise and training, horoscopes and removal of junk files from Android devices, respectively. Ars Technica reports that all of the apps offered users an option to disable in-app ads by logging into their Facebook accounts. Users who accepted the in-app offer were taken to a genuine Facebook login form containing fields for usernames and passwords. At this point, the trojan malware within the apps would be activated. Researchers from Dr. ...

Kaspersky Discovers Various Malicious Apps Disguising as Bestselling Game Minecraft

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Kaspersky Discovers Various Malicious Apps Disguising as Bestselling Game Minecraft

wazup June 13, 2021 Comments Closed 70 views

Sourced from Stuff. Recognised as the world’s top-selling game of all time, Minecraft attracts the attention of enthusiastic players around the world but also draws the interest of fraudsters. Earlier, Kaspersky researchers discovered more than 20 applications advertised on app stores offering additional Minecraft features. Though these malicious apps were deleted from official stores, Kaspersky experts have found newly developed ones, which exploit the game to further fraudster’s objectives. Malware on Google Play Store Kaspersky researchers analysed various apps, including those which are available for download on the Google Play store and claimed to be modpacks (user-created packages with additional gameplay elements) for the game. As a result, the company’s experts found various malici...