Security News > 2020 > March > Facebook cookie-stealing trojans surface on Android devices
2020-03-12 20:41
The trojans are designed to gain control of Facebook user accounts by capturing browser cookies in Android, says Kaspersky.
This trojan captures root rights on an Android device, thus allowing it to steal cookies from the browser and from Facebook and transfer them to the server of the cybercriminals behind it.
The current version of this trojan is specific to Android and is stealing cookies from Chrome and Android's default browser.
Though the trojan is targeting cookies from Facebook, the theft is not the result of any flaw in the Facebook app or in the Android browser.
Block third-party cookie access on your phone's web browser, and only let your data be saved until you quit the browser.