Hack into the accounts of more than 1 million Facebook users

 

Hack into the accounts of more than 1 million Facebook users

1. Revealed Meta (Facebook)
2. About a massive breakthrough for more than
3. 1 million user accounts on its platform.

The hack was likely to be made when one of hundreds of malicious apps were downloaded on smartphones, Sky News Arabia reported, citing Axios.

The security team at Meta published a report on the problem

 confirming that hundreds of sites that appear to be safe because they help to modify images and so on, lure the user so that they can access the password.

The report noted that 355 of those malicious applications were on Android phones, while 47 were among the "Ios" users.

The researchers explained that 40 percent of these malicious applications purport to provide image modification services, as well as other specialists in areas such as gaming and business.

Experts explain that this breakthrough begins

•  when web developers create malicious apps

• under a required and natural service banner

• and then display them in app stores.

When a user uploads the app

they find themselves required to register via their Facebook account, and when they make this move, the road to stealing information is blocked.

When a user agrees to register for malicious apps that they don't know, via their Facebook account, they make their owners accessible to all the information they have on the platform.

Owners of these malicious apps may have access to other information such as e-mail if it is linked to Facebook's account and password.

David Agranović

director of the threat foil division at Meta

said he could not provide an exact figure on how many of them were likely to have their traffic words stolen due to malicious applications.

The Meta official added 

that estimates indicate that some 1 million users are likely to be exposed to the problem, while Google and Apple said they immediately removed those malicious apps from their stores.

Google and Apple confirm that their teams are careful to check each licensed application, but the screening process cannot monitor all gaps.

Meta advises users to be careful, when they carry an app that asks them to register through their Facebook account, as this step may serve as an entry point for hacking their information.