Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

On the morning of October 8, Beijing time, Meta Platforms reportedly said on Friday that it would send notifications to about 1 million Facebook users that their accounts may be at risk by downloading malicious applications from Apple and Google's software stores.

The company says it has found more than 400 Android and iOS apps designed to steal users' login information this year. Meta said it had informed Apple and Google to help it remove the apps.

Meta said the apps disguised as photo editing, mobile games or health tracking software to trick users into providing account information.

Of the 400 defective apps, 45 came from App Store and have been deleted, Apple said. A Google spokesman said the company has also removed all problematic malicious applications.

"cyber criminals know how popular these apps are, and they use the same themes to trick users and steal their accounts and information." "if an app promises something that is unbelievably good, such as a feature that has not yet been released on other platforms or social networking sites, it is likely to have ulterior motives," said David Agranovich, director of global threat destruction at Meta.

For example, when a user downloads a malicious application, a typical scam begins. In addition to providing basic functions, the application will also require Facebook users to log in to defraud their usernames and passwords. But in the process, they unwittingly gave account access to the app's developers.

Meta said it would share fraud prevention techniques with potential victims to help them identify applications that could be problematic. Agraanovic said that malicious activities took place outside the Meta system, and the passwords of these 1 million users may not have been stolen by lawbreakers.

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