Alert..! Apps on Google Play Steal Facebook Credentials

Alert.. !  Over 500,000 Android users targeted by phishing apps harvesting their Facebook credentials. Cowboy Adventure was a relatively popular game on the Google Play store. That popularity in itself is unremarkable: however, the developers of the app also used it as a tool to harvest Facebook credentials, and that did raise a few eyebrows. It was one of two games that contained this malicious functionality, the other one being Jump Chess.

 

 

These apps did contain legitimate functionality (they actually were real games) in addition to the fraud. The problem lies in the fact that when the app is launched, a fake Facebook login window is displayed to the user. If victims fell for the scam, their Facebook credentials would be sent to the attackers’ server.

The good news is that Google has taken down both of the apps from their app store and also warns against their installation on Android devices:

 

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