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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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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?

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

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