Meta warns of password-stealing phone apps

More than 40% of the apps Meta listed involved ways to edit or manipulate images, and some were as seemingly simple as using smartphones as flashlights. — AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta warned a million Facebook users Friday that they have been "exposed" to seemingly innocuous smartphone applications designed to steal passwords to the social network.

So far this year, Meta has identified more than 400 "malicious" apps tailored for smartphones powered by Apple or Android software and available at the Apple and Google app stores, director of threat disruption David Agranovich said during a briefing.