Unfriend Alert: Stealing your Facebook Credentials

Steal facebook account?

Wow surprising news. All know what facebook, because 75% of the people in the world use applications of that friendship.

What if you have face account in the steal?

Very scary because crackers can take over the your facebook account of all the information.  

We must seek to improve the security of your computer and browse the internet safely.

Because the existing applications in our computer can be the reason of the leakage of personal information is very important.

Examples of application "Unfriend Alert" can steal our facebook login password.

Unfriend Alert is an application to find out anyone who has cut off the relationship of friendship with us? One method Social Engenering the cracker by utilizing the basic human weakness. Weakness in the form of curiosity about our friends on facebook.

Today everybody wants to know — Who visited my Facebook profile?, Who unfriended me from the Facebook Friend list?, Who saw my Facebook posts?, and many other features that isn't provided by Facebook by default.

So most Facebook users try to find out a software and fall victim to one that promises to accomplish their desired task. Hackers make use of this weakness and often design malicious programs in order to victimize broad audience.
Following I am going to disclose the realities behind one such software designed cleverly to trick Facebook users to make them believe it is genuine.

The app promises to send you an alert when someone unfriends you on Facebook. However, instead of sending unfriend notifications, it sends your login information to yougotunfriended.com.
 “But if you provide your login credentials, which seems a bad idea in the first place, the program is able to see whether one of your Facebook friends decided they had enough of you. Also the application does not show up in the list of Apps on your Facebook page, so you might easily forget that something or someone could be monitoring or even be using your Facebook account.”

UnfriendAlert, a free application that notifies you whenever someone removes you from the Facebook friend list, has been found collecting its users' Facebook credentials.
Late last month, UnfriendAlert was also classified as potentially unwanted program (PUP) which often displays unwanted advertisements and deceptively installs other malicious software and free apps when visiting some web pages in your Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, making you fail to block them.

If you have downloaded the app, it’s recommended you change your Facebook password as soon as possible. Here are the steps to successfully remove the software from your computer.

Security researchers at Malwarebytes have warned users of the UnfriendAlert app saying that the notorious app asks users to login with their Facebook credentials to activate unfriends monitoring and alert service for your Facebook profile. So users are recommended to uninstall UnfriendAlert App from your computer, and besides removing this, you are also advised to change your Facebook password as soon as possible. You can do this under "Settings —> Password —> Edit."

Facebook users who downloaded the “Unfriend Alert” application should be on alert because the app could have access to your login and password, according to Pieter Arntz of Malwarebytes Labs.

Always do some research before installing any third party application as your one single mistake could compromise your online security and privacy in various ways.