They detect 400 malicious apps that could steal your information by linking them to your Facebook account

The accounts of nearly a million users of Facebook have been compromised due to the malicious activity of 400 applications for Android and iOS designed to steal access credentials.

Meta researchers have identified more than 400 applications available in the Google and Apple stores that pretended to offer photo editing services, virtual private networks (VPN), activity monitors or other types of utilities, with the aim that users They will download them.

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These malicious apps, once installed on the smartphone, requested to log in with the Facebook account in order to use the functions that they promised to have. However, its purpose, as Meta has detailed on its official page, was to steal the credentials.

“If login information is stolen, attackers could gain full access to a person’s account and do things like send messages to their friends or access private information.”they explain from the company.

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Meta alerted Apple and Google of these applications, which have already been removed from their respective application stores. However, and since they can still be installed on users’ phones, the company has advised resetting the password and creating a new one that is strong and accompanied by a two-step authentication system. If internal notifications are also activated, the user could know if someone is trying to access their account.

On the other hand, the company has reported that it will notify about a million users whose accounts they believe have been compromised, as shared by the director of global threat disruption at Meta, David Agranovich and collected by Bloomberg.

Source: Elcomercio

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