Axios reports:
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.
355 of those were Android apps, while 47 were on iOS. 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.
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NEW – Meta says it’s warning 1 million Facebook users about password-stealing malware that managed to make it onto Apple and Google app stores.
Included a load of photoshopping apps, like those that turn your face into a cartoon.
Basic but effective.https://t.co/wZwJhqxNql
— Thomas Brewster (@iblametom) October 7, 2022