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In case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installs (mashable.com)

submitted 6 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you download apps from fdroid, at the very least you can be sure that the binary is 100% generated from the provided source code, the devs can't pull a switcheroo like submitting an altered version of app (e.g. inserting malware) that doesn't match the published source code.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

With the new changes to the repo management, that's not going to remain true for much longer.