Meta will notify at least 1 million Facebook users that their login information may have been stolen if they downloaded one of hundreds of malicious mobile apps.
Meta’s security team published a report this morning detailing how more than 400 mobile apps posed as innocuous tools, such as photo editors, to get people to share their Facebook login credentials.About 40% of the apps were disguised as photo editing tools. The others fell into a range of categories including gaming, lifestyle, business utility and virtual private networks.
After downloading the app, a user is prompted to set up an account by using the “Login with Facebook” function. Those login credentials can be used to gain complete access to someone's Facebook account — or other accounts, if they use the same email and password combinations elsewhere.: David Agranovich, Meta’s director of threat disruption, told reporters that it’s impossible for his team to determine the exact number of Facebook users who fell for this scam since the attack happened on their personal devices.
: More bad actors have been turning to malicious applications as a way of stealing login credentials or installing spyware onto someone’s device without them knowing.
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