Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords

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Google has given the boot to nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company's Play marketplace after researchers said these apps used a sneaky way to steal users' Facebook login credentials.

In a bid to win users’ trust and lower their guard, the apps provided fully functioning services for photo editing and framing, exercise and training, horoscopes, and removal of junk files from Android devices, according to a post published by security firm Dr. Web. All of the identified apps offered users an option to disable in-app ads by logging into their Facebook accounts. Users who chose the option saw a genuine Facebook login form containing fields for entering usernames and passwords.

Then, as Dr. Web researchers wrote:

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Mobile App security solutions are generally given least priority by Android & iOS app developers which leads to such cybercrime, It is very important to strengthen your android apps to intrusion, tampering, reverse-engineering, and malware attacks. Above article is the biggest example for the cybercrime. Its high time that we take In app- protection seriously and take necessary action towards it.