Rudimentary malware hidden inside fake photo editors, VPNs and even horoscope and flashlight apps has affected a large number of Facebook users, says a new report released by Meta.
Meta says that over a year it detected 400 Facebook password-pilfering apps across Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. Most appear to have been taken down, but the threat remains, Meta says.As many as a million Facebook users were targeted with Android and iPhone malware apps that tried to steal their passwords, according to a report released by Meta on Thursday.
The modus operandi of the malware was simple, said David Agranovich, Meta’s director of threat disruption, during a press briefing on Meta’s report. Most of the apps asked for a Facebook log-in to use the app, which is typical of many apps.
He said that Meta would be warning 1 million users if they had been exposed to the apps in some way, though the company couldn’t definitively say whether or not all those users were infected. It was also unclear how Meta determined which accounts were possibly affected. Agranovich simply said the company has ways of detecting “signals” that “help us understand if that account was compromised and if an attacker was gaining access to their accounts in a particular way.
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