Comment on Chameleon Android malware can turn off fingerprint unlock to steal your pin

Deebster@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• VieuxQueb@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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    • Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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    • JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 mothership.sg/…/ocbc-security-feature-delete-thir…

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    • AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • driveway@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That you know of, but I get what you’re saying

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That you know of

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean like Play, which is where 99% of installed malware comes from?

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