BANGKOK, April 4 (TNA) – Police warn that some software applications have malware that creates a fake Facebook log-in page to steal users’ names and passwords.
Pol Col Siriwat Deepor, deputy spokesman of the Royal Thai Police Office, said researchers from a cybersecurity company, Pradeo, found that the Craftsart Cartoon Photo Tools application available through Google Play Store had the malware named Facestealer which created a screen that looked like the log-in page of Facebook.
It could thus steal the users’ names and passwords of victims and the data were then sent to the server of a hacker overseas. The data could be abused and damage the real Facebook users, Pol Col Siriwat said.
He warned people to carefully download programs because they could contain malware. Victims could file their cases via police hotlines 191 and 1599 around the clock, he said. (TNA)
