Schoolyard Bully Android Malware Wants Your Facebook Login, Not Your Lunch Money
According to the researchers’ findings, this trojan primarily targets Vietnamese users. However, the over 300,000 victims of this malware are spread across at least seventy-one countries, so this malware campaign still poses a threat to users outside of Vietnam. Zimperium researchers identified numerous apps on the Google Play Store that contained the Schoolyard Bully payload. Google has since removed these apps from the Play Store, but they are still available on third-party app stores for unsuspecting users to download.
In a dark twist, Meta was caught earlier this year using a custom in-app browser within the Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger apps to inject what appeared to be a tracking script into webpages viewed within these apps. We wrote at the time of this discovery that it raised broader privacy and security concerns, as malicious apps could potentially use this same technique to inject code that…