These games have been able to steal your Facebook data

Security and privacy continue to be concepts capable of making users' hair stand on end jealous of their privacy. And it is that using the mobile phone for everything has its risks Even more so when hackers and cybercriminals are more than determined to use all possible traps to get a good slice of it. The last case that we have known is that of two games that have roamed freely in Google Play Store , the official applications store for terminals Android, stealing user credentials from the social network Facebook

And we say free range because, despite the negative reviews and scores, the games managed to exceed a million downloads between them It was about Cowboy Adventure and Jump Chess, two simple games that they hid inside their code a technique of phising In other words, a trick that made simulate the Facebook registration or logging screen for users to enter their user data A common process to challenge other friends on the social network or compare scores, but in this case only It was used to steal user data

Games have already been removed from the Google Play Store But the surprising thing is to see that, despite the comments from many users criticizing that it was nothing more than applications of spam or , have achieved a great pull among usersIn fact, between the two they add more than a million downloads, demonstrating great traction. Something that they surely have achieved with positioning techniques on Google Play, drawing the attention of players from all over the world, and stealing the Facebook credentials of many of them.

Now this does not mean that Android is the most dangerous platform. And so far, Google Play works quite well when it comes to finding and removing fake applications, scams or those that are nothing more than virus However, the sheer number of users of this platform around the world is candy too sweet to eat. cybercriminals don't try their tricks on it. The more users, the more chances of hitting a good shot.

Google has been improving its security barriers To do so It not only has a analysis of applications and games that will be published in Google Play Store , also for months a human team manually tests applications to ensure that this type of technique does not overcome their protections. Even so, with all these issues in mind, we must not lose sight of the possible risks For this reason it is advisable not to let our guard downand adhere to several basic security principles to ensure data privacy:

• Issues like Install only applications from the Google Play Store In this case GoogleIt failed for a while, but warns users if it finds anomalies or problems with applications that have been detected as frauds.
• It is also recommended to review the comments of other users who have previously tried the game or application, thus being able to prevent any risk.
• Finally, it doesn't hurt to install some kind of antivirus capable of checking from time to time what applications are installed on the terminal . Thus ensuring that there is no danger of any kind.