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Malware targets Indian Android users, takes photos, makes illegal payments: Govt advisory (www.moneycontrol.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Basically don't download apks from telegram.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

You mean we shouldn't blindly trust random, almost entirely anonymous, users giving out executables to be run on the very same devices we do banking and important life paperwork on? Say it ain't so!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Or shady websites which promise premium.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's rather obvious, but on the other hand Google's Play Protect should catch malware like this. You have to have an extremely outdated phone not to have Play Protect running on your phone...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The only thing play protect has done "for" me lately was remove file access to Poweramp the day after I got it. Fuck Play Protect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

"it really skips the llama's ass"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what happened to Poweramp on your side, but I've scanned my copy and nothing gets detected.

Assuming you're not stupid, the only time you will notice Play Protect is through false positives. You can disable it if you're smart enough not to install APKs from Telegram, but it's still a valuable security tool for the general public.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps, he had that when Poweramp still had that permission. The app itself says Google removed that permission for play edition apps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Play Protect won't take action on that, though. Installed apps will only get purged when Google actually detects a virus.

I'm surprised the Poweramp dev still hasn't updated their storage API calls, picking one or more directories to play content from has been the norm for two or three years now. I guess it's a backwards compatibility thing for existing customers?

I think Play Protect does sometimes throw a "installing whatsappro2022crackedbysteve.APK can be dangerous" prompt, but you can just click through that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i plugged in a random usb stick i found on the ground and got multiple stds, why didnt windows anti virus protect me from this?!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It should, though. SmartScreen should prevent random execution and Windows Defender should warn you about viruses.

Preventing infections is literally the point of all of the security software built into modern operating systems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That joke kinda sailed over your head there, mate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Probably. I've talked to so many "antivirus is a conspiracy by Big MicroGoogleBook to take away your human rights" people that I no longer assume people saying this stuff are sarcastic.