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. ...
