Facebook sues two companies for malware in Android

Facebook has filed a lawsuit against two companies in Singapore and Hong Kong for allegedly implanting malware into Android apps, to automatically click on the ads to boost their revenue.

According to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the company in the Federal Court of San Francisco, according to "Bloomberg", an app would have worked to automatically pressure tens of millions of ads on the Facebook platform for a period of three months until At the end of last year.

Facebook said it discovered the vulnerability in December, disabling its applications and banning its developers from accessing the Web.

Facebook has undergone a thorough review of the use of private user data and the impact of malicious content on more than 2 billion users, and governments around the world have filed lawsuits against company policies.

In return, the company aggressively tackles the commercialization of its networks.