Chameleon Android malware can turn off fingerprint unlock to steal your pin::Be careful out there.

  • VieuxQueb@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    And not from the play store or official bank site.

    If you install an APK from unreliable source you should treat your phone and account as corrupted.

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      10 months ago

      It’s funny imagining people saying this for anything but a phone. “You can only download from the Microsoft store or you should consider your device corrupted.” Take caution, but you don’t need to rely on daddy Google alone.

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        10 months ago

        Damn, here I was worried I had bricked my phone and made it unusable by loading up my own personal apks when I was trying to learn coding and different app studios.

        I feel like I would have noticed if my phone was unusable though…

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        10 months ago

        I don’t think this person was saying they think all manual apk installs are suspect, just that installing apks from an unreliable source. There are plenty of reliable sources to get apks

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        10 months ago

        Most apps choose to distribute through Play Store only though. If the devs aren’t officially distributing on a separate platform or provide signing keys for you to verify the signature of the APK you get from elsewhere, you’re just asking for malware by downloading it anywhere else.

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      you need Google to tell you what safe and what’s not? have you ever used a desktop operating system where you usually install programs from different sources?

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      10 months ago

      Lmao what? I have literally never found an APK I was looking for that did anything sketchy to my phone