Google has removed 25 Android apps that stole Facebook credentials. View the list and remove them from your device immediately.
Mobile devices and cell phones phones they have an increasing presence as powerful productivity machines, but they are also a major backdoor if not managed properly. The latest example is Google, which at the end of June removed 25 Android applications from the Google Play Store, because they were "caught" stealing Facebook credentials.
These 25 malicious apps were all made by her team (Rio Reader LLC) and despite offering different features, they all basically worked the same. The 25 apps had a combined total of over 2,34 million downloads before Google security noticed them and took them down.
According to a report by the French security company Evina, apps are featured as step counters, image editors, video editors, wallpaper apps, lens apps, file managers and games for mobile phones.
The applications offered legitimate functionality, but also contained malicious code. Evina researchers say the apps contained code that identifies which app was recently opened by a user in the foreground of the phone.
If this app was Facebook, the malicious app overlaid the official Facebook app with its own screen and uploaded a fake Facebook login page (see image below: blue line = real Facebook app, black line = phishing page) .
If users entered their credentials on this phishing site, the malicious application would record them and send them to a remote server located in the airshop.pw domain (which does not work now).
Evina said she found the malware embedded in 25 applications and reported it to Google in late May. Google has removed the dangerous applications after verifying the findings of the French security company. Some of the applications were available in the Play Store for more than a year !!!.
The full list of 25 apps, their names and package ID, are listed below. When Google removes malicious apps from the Google Store, it also disables the apps on the user's devices and notifies them via services Play Protect (included in the official Play Store app).
