UPDATED: Unfriend Alert App Is Safe
The Unfriend Alert app is safe for Facebook users, after all, as Malwarebytes Labs amended a blog post that initially reported that the app skimmed users' login information.
UPDATED: The Unfriend Alert application is safe for Facebook users, after all, as Pieter Arntz of Malwarebytes Labs amended a blog post that initially reported that the app skimmed users’ login information.
Arntz wrote in the updated blog post:
Here at Malwarebytes, we do our best at pointing out the facts and true dangers behind all online threats, although we are only human, and very rarely we can be overzealous in our attempts to inform our users of online threats. Unfriend Alert reached out to us after this blog post to let us know what our analysis was incorrect, and upon further inspection, it turns out that our initial belief that Unfriend Alert was possibly stealing Facebook credentials was incorrect.
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