A nasty trojan in some Android apps stole the Facebook password of some users before the apps and developers were banned by Google.
The Google Play Store is generally the safest place to obtain apps for your Android smartphone, but every once in a while, some bad actors find their way in. Recently, Google removed a handful of Android apps from the Play Store that tried to steal Facebook passwords. Dr. Web recently highlighted a “trojan” that was embedded within some Android apps that had the ability to trick users into giving up their Facebook password. Ten apps were observed using the software, most of which were actually available in the Google Play Store and had racked up a considerable number of downloads. The nine apps combined were downloaded over 6 million times.
