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

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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.

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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