Hooked to playing adventure games on your smartphone or tablet? Was "Cowboy Adventure" - an Android game - also one of them? If you answered yes then you're in trouble.
Why? Researchers reveal that Cowboy Adventure has apparently compromised the Facebook login credentials of over a million users who downloaded the
Android game.
This information has been divulged by ESET, a Slovakia-based antivirus service that published a post on Thursday, July 9, which detailed how the Cowboy Adventure app on the Google Play store was able to steal personal information of the users.
"With 500,000 - 1,000,000 installs, Cowboy Adventure was a relatively popular game on the Google Play store. That popularity in itself is unremarkable: however, the developers of the app also used it as a tool to harvest Facebook credentials, and that did raise a few eyebrows,"
noted ESET's malware researchers
