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Chameleon Android malware can turn off fingerprint unlock to steal your pin(me.mashable.com)

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

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VieuxQueb@lemmy.world
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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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Cethin@lemmy.zip
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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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Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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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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JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world
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not funny anymore. Banks and regulatory are doing this in some countries. Their app just refuses to open if users install any app outside of Google Play Stores.

Take a look at this https://mothership.sg/2023/08/ocbc-security-feature-delete-third-party-apps/

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AdmiralShat@programming.dev
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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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sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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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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Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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Lmao what? I have literally never found an APK I was looking for that did anything sketchy to my phone

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FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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That you know of, but I get what you’re saying

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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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You mean like Play, which is where 99% of installed malware comes from?

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