Facebook ‘Unfriend Alert’ app notifies you whenever someone removes you from their Facebook friend list making it more appealing to install.
The Facebook was started in year 2004 by the two collage dropouts Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Severin which was initially designed for the college students to get connected with their friends, but slowly it became the social media platform where the entire world is connected on this single platform. Today facebook has more than 1 billion active users connected online from across the globe.
Obviously with the increase in connectivity of the users the engineers at the facebook faces the huge challenge of hacking of the user accounts via various medium and one of them is the third party apps. Lots of programmers introduce hundreds of new apps every day for the facebook. You may find the new alerts of the app quoting “who viewed your profile” and it looks very tempting.
Recently the facebook has issued the alert against the new app “Unfriend Alert” which apparently steals your password. According to the app makers the “Unfriend Alert” gives you alert when someone “Unfriends” you on the facebook. The betannews has issued the notification that while using this app the confidential data of the users is collected online.
The app is free and notifies you whenever someone removes you from the Facebook friend list. But it asks for your login credentials. “Looking at a Wireshark log for this check however shows that the login credentials are not sent directly to Facebook but to yougotunfriended.com,” security firm MalwareBytes said. This app also displays the Ads and its capable of installing the malicious software on the user’s computer. What’s more worrisome is that it doesn’t show up in the apps list on Facebook. So you can easily forget that it is there and monitoring your activities.
Expert recommends removing the app and changing your password. There have been other apps in the market that alert the users when a Facebook friend ditches them, but this new app seems to be designed to steal passwords.
Source: The New York Times
